Severe and protracted cholestasis in 44 young men taking bodybuilding supplements: assessment of genetic, clinical and chemical risk factors.

Andrew StolzVictor NavarroPaul H HayashiRobert J FontanaHuiman X BarnhartJiezhun GuNaga P ChalasaniMaricruz M VegaHerbert L BonkovskyLeonard B SeeffJose SerranoBharathi AvulaIkhlas A KhanElizabeth T CirulliDavid E KleinerJay H Hoofnaglenull null

Published in: Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics (2019)

Patients with bodybuilding supplements liver injury uniformly presented with cholestatic injury, which slowly resolved. The ingested products often contained anabolic steroids not identified on the label, and no enrichment in genetic variants was found, indicating a need for additional studies.

Keyphrases

liver injury
drug induced
risk factors
middle aged
genome wide
case control