Research Report on Use of Meldonium in Athletes
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Research Report on Use of Meldonium in Athletes
Added on 2020-01-21
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A research conducted by the Medical XPress (2016, March 9), highlights the fact that the use ofmeldonium among athletes is increasingly huge. The Baku 2015 European Games that took place inAzerbaijan, between 12th and 28th June 2015, the use of meldoniumhit the headlines. A report by Stuart etal. (2016) confirms that indeed there was a huge consumption of meldonium by dozens of the 5632competing athletes. Investigations on the use of meldonium have consequently prompted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Monitoring Program, to enlist the drug under surveillance for substancesassociated with doping.Notwithstanding medical regimes allowing the use of meldonium in a number of countries inEastern Europe, WADA Monitoring Program feels the need to raise awareness for future decisions on theuse of meldonium prescribed to athletes. The anecdotal reports obtained from the London 2012 Olympicand Paralympic Games (Stuart et al. 2016) supports this claim. However, it remains unclear as to whethera legitimate use of meldonium by majority of athletes in the Baku 2015 European Games, is a reason todiscredit the use of meldonium. A possible solution to this question can be given by sources of data andanalysis carried out.The European Olympic Committees (EOC) Medical and Anti-Doping Commission was mandatedto analyze the data samples, that included a declaration by athletes and their medical teams, and a urine orblood sample. A procedural testing of these samples was done in WADA’s distinct laboratories and theresults were to form part of the Monitoring Program surveillance. The results were obtained from 864tests performed either on urine that had 762 tests and 102 samples tested for blood. However, despite 80%(525) of the 662 athletes making a self-reported declaration for medication among the tested athletes, only3.5% (23) of the 662 athletes declared having administered meldonium at the period of the Games.Nevertheless, the laboratory tests confirmed that it was not the 23 athletes alone that confirmed to haveused meldonium but a total of 63 out of the 662 athletes tested.Furthermore, this under reporting of the presence of meldonium among athletes continues to raisequestions most especially when data was collected on the medicines imported by the NOC teams. The
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