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- Title
ENDOCRINOLOGY AND WOMEN'S SPORTS: THE DIAGNOSIS MATTERS.
- Authors
AUCHUS, RICHARD J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on sex in sport from the endocrinologist's perspective and critical differences between male and female biology and testosterone as fundamental to the discrepancies in athletic performance between men and women. It mentions rise of women's sports, doping with performance-enhancing substances particularly androgens and non-athletes will ever receive in their medical care. It also mentions corticosteroid replacement with 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21OHD).
- Subjects
ENDOCRINOLOGISTS; TESTOSTERONE; WOMEN'S sports; PERFORMANCE-enhancing drugs; ANDROGENS; ATHLETES; ADRENOCORTICAL hormones; HYDROXYLASES; MEDICAL care
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 2017, Vol 80, Issue 4, p127
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article