
Results for the heart too.
By Ghoul at Meso:
By Ghoul at Meso:
quoted said:AAS use is automatically “high risk” for reasons beyond the numbers you see on a lipid panel
quoted said:We have LOTS of members with LVH.
quoted said:AAS use by default puts us all in, at least, the lower end of "high risk", but unfortunately the risk scores and guidelines don't explicitly address it, though a (good) cardiologist would use this info to follow "high risk" guidelines for treatment decisions despite other factors putting you in a low risk category.
Not all the things that make AAS use a cardiovascular risk factor are understood yet. Some are obvious like lipids, BP, inflammation, but from the limited research there's even more going on, because risk appears higher than those other traditional factors can account for.
I've seen theories, for example, that micro vessels within heart muscle tissue may be harmed by AAS use in unique ways, hinted at in autopsies of young bodybuilders, but the mechanism isn't understood yet.
quoted said:...wrecking microvessels in heart muscle and elsewhere, which is virtually impossible to see, even in an autopsy, unless the tissue is specifically examined for that type of damage. And when they've looked for it, more often then not, in AAS users they find it.