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Anabolic steroid use among teenage girls has increased. To gain more insight into this behavior, researchers analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. female students in grades 9 through 12 who completed the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Of the 7544 respondents, 5.3% said that they had used, or were using, anabolic steroids. Girls who participated on sports teams were less likely to use steroids than girls who were not on teams, and girls in the 9th and 10th grades were more likely to use steroids than girls in the 12th grade. Girls who used steroids were significantly more likely than nonusers to engage in health-harming behaviors such as use of alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs; early or high-risk sexual activity; c…