“Gay and bisexual boys are almost six times as likely as their heterosexual peers to misuse steroids, according to a new study.

“What was most surprising to us was the magnitude of the disparities that emerged between sexual minority and heterosexual boys,” Aaron J. Blashill from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston told Reuters Health in an email.

Upwards of 5 percent of adolescent boys use anabolic-androgenic steroids to enhance strength, athletic performance, and muscle size, but nobody had studied the association between sexual orientation and steroid abuse before, Blashill and his colleague Steven A. Safren noted.

Long-term misuse of steroids can lead to heart problems, hormone-related changes and psychiatric disorders.”* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola break it down.

*Read more here from Will Boggs / Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/03/us-gay-and-bisexual-idUSBREA1215C20140203

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