Multiple incidence of the prescription diuretic hydrochlorothiazide in compounded nutritional supplements

Autor: Emanuele Roselli, Salvatore Scrivano, Roberto Pertile, Fabio Mattiazzi, S. Visentin, Donata Favretto, Susanna Vogliardi, Marianna Tucci, Massimo Montisci
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Drug Testing and Analysis. 11:512-522
ISSN: 1942-7611
1942-7603
DOI: 10.1002/dta.2499
Popis: Diuretic agents are prohibited in sports in- and out-of-competition according to the regulations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) because of their possible masking effects on other doping agents in urine samples, and their ability to produce fast acute weight losses. Despite previous studies reported adverse analytical findings (AAFs) resulting from contaminations at ppm level (μg/g) of medicinal products, and recommended to introduce reporting limits for diuretics in doping controls, these are not adopted in analyses performed by WADA-accredited laboratories. We report the case of an athlete with two AAFs for hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) at low urinary concentrations (
Databáze: OpenAIRE