In the retrospective study, patients without known coronary artery disease who had shortness of breath were four times more likely to suffer death from a cardiac cause than asymptomatic patients and twice as likely as patients who had chest pain that is considered to be typical cardiac pain.
A steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration.Examples include the dietary lipid cholesterol, the sex hormones estradiol and testosterone and the anti-inflammatory drug dexamethasone. steroid is an organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific configuration.
What steroids do. Anabolic steroids-more properly termed anabolic-androgenic steroids-are synthetic derivatives of testosterone-the hormone that makes a man a man.teroids are taken orally (pill) or through injection, usually in the upper outer quadrant of the buttocks. Some athletes, however, have been known to inject specific sites hoping to increase muscle size and/or strength in that area. Unfortunately, this strategy does not work and can damage the injection site.