The Urine Marker Test: An Alternative Approach to Supervised Urine Collection for Doping Control
| Autor: | Stine Nylansted Jensen, Peter Elsborg, Monika Wetzke, Anne-Marie Elbe, Ruprecht Keller, Anthony W. Butch, Getachew A. Woldemariam, Bernd Huppertz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Urine 01 natural sciences Urination Polyethylene Glycols Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Internal medicine Humans Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Urine Specimen Collection media_common Doping in Sports biology business.industry Athletes 010401 analytical chemistry technology industry and agriculture 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification 0104 chemical sciences Test (assessment) Surgery Attitude Female business Urine sample Biomarkers Urine collection |
| Zdroj: | Sports Medicine. 46:15-22 |
| ISSN: | 1179-2035 0112-1642 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40279-015-0388-6 |
| Popis: | Urine sample collection for doping control tests is a key component of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s fight against doping in sport. However, a substantial number of athletes experience difficulty when having to urinate under supervision. Furthermore, it cannot always be ensured that athletes are actually delivering their own urine. A method that can be used to alleviate the negative impact of a supervised urination procedure and which can also identify urine as coming from a specific athlete is the urine marker test. Monodisperse low molecular weight polyethylene glycols (PEGs) are given orally prior to urination. Urine samples can be traced to the donor by analysis of the PEGs previously given. The objective of this study was to investigate the use of the urine marker during urine doping control testing. Two studies investigated athletes’ acceptance of this new method via two questionnaires (n = 253). Furthermore, a third study (n = 91) investigated whether ingestion of the marker can identify the urine as coming from a specific person and whether the marker interferes with the detection of prohibited substances. The results indicate that this new method finds wide acceptance both from athletes who have only heard about the procedure and those who have actually tested the new method. Furthermore, the marker, which can identify urine as coming from a specific person, does not interfere with the detection of prohibited substances. |
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