Andrea Petroczi

..The aim of this study was to investigate SUM among Slovenian Olympic racket sport players in the context of educational, sociodemographic and sport-specific factors...

..This report postulates the association of deletion polymorphism in the UGT2B17 gene with the occurrence of renal disorders on chronic exposure to AAS...

..The aim of this study is to retrospectively analyze the patterns in food alert and recall by countries to identify the principal hazard generators and gatekeepers of food safety in the eleven months leading up to the Declaration...

..The ethnic composition may also influence the detection patterns...

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..The need for better quality control, compliance and public awareness is evident...

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..Social psychology research on doping and outcome based evaluation of primary anti-doping prevention and intervention programmes have been dominated by self-reports. Having confidence in the validity and reliability of such data is vital...

..To date, no attempt has been made to quantitatively explore athletes' mental representation of doping in relation to illegality and functionality...

..This study proposed a new fuzzy response model coined 'Single Sample Count' (SSC) to estimate prevalence of discriminating or embarrassing behaviour in epidemiologic studies...

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..This pilot study was aimed at developing and validating a method to assess implicit doping attitudes using an Implicit Associations Test (IAT) approach...

..Except for nutritional supplement contamination, accidental use of doping is highly unlikely. It requires deliberation, planning and commitment; and is influenced by a host of protective and risk factors...

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..The 'False Consensus Effect' (FCE), by which people perceive their own actions as relatively common behaviour, might be exploited to gauge whether a person engages in controversial behaviour, such as performance enhancing drug (PED) use...

..To analyse enquiries made in the Drug Information Database (DID) to develop a better understanding of athletes' interests and concerns regarding the prohibited status of available substances...

..Therefore, models of doping should include and anti-doping policies should consider attitudes or orientations toward the specific target end, in addition to the attitude toward the 'tool' itself...

..The prevalence of supplement intake and users' knowledge have been researched independently leading to useful, but disconnected, information on supplement use...

..Owing to the wide detection window, this approach may also offer an alternative approach for out-of-competition testing...

..The aim of this study was to develop a novel LC-MS/MS method that can accurately identify and quantitate 25OHD3 and 25OHD2 through chromatographic separation of 25OHD from its epimers and isobars...

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..The outlined method can be valuable for the future detection of mephedrone and its two metabolites in hair...

..Currently, comprehensive systems for food safety and security are absent in many countries, and the systems that are in place have been developed on different principles allowing poor opportunities for integration...

..Whilst these common compounds are not substrates of the UGT2B17 enzyme, we showed that they inhibit testosterone glucuronidation which may have implications on current doping control in sport...

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..In conclusion, this analysis highlights the main detector and transgressor nations along with the seafood and metal types that lead to alerts owing to high levels of contamination...

..Chem Central J 2008, 2:13...

..This study aims to explore potential misuse of vasodilators by the athletes, and to highlight the growing concern over these agents...

..Exercise intervention studies carry the caveat that the results are limited to volunteers with good compliance and completion profiles...