A pilot wastewater-based epidemiology assessment of anabolic steroid use in Queensland, Australia.

Abstract:

:Anabolic-androgenic steroids are synthetic compounds prohibited due to their performance-enhancing characteristics. The use of these substances is known to cause health-related issues, which highlights the importance of being able to evaluate the scale of consumption by the general population. However, most available research on the analysis of anabolic steroids is focused on animals and athletes in connection with doping. The potential of wastewater-based epidemiology as an intelligence tool for the assessment of community level use of anabolic steroids is presented herein. A liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method was developed for the analysis of 10 anabolic-androgenic steroids and 14 endogenous hormones in influent wastewater. The validated method was applied to sixteen 24-hour composite wastewater influent samples that were collected over a period of five years from two wastewater treatment plants in Queensland, Australia. Nine investigated compounds were found to be present at concentrations between 14 and 611 ng L-1 which translated into 3-104 mg excreted per 1000 individuals per day. It was concluded that the developed analytical method is suitable for the analysis of AAS in wastewater matrix. Additionally, both the inclusion of metabolites and further investigation into deconjugation by enzymatic hydrolysis would aid in understanding and evaluating community anabolic steroid use. For the first time, this study presents the application of wastewater-based epidemiology on anabolic-androgenic steroids in Australia.

journal_name

Drug Test Anal

authors

Shimko KM,O'Brien JW,Barron L,Kayalar H,Mueller JF,Tscharke BJ,Choi PM,Jiang H,Eaglesham G,Thomas KV

doi

10.1002/dta.2591

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-07-01 00:00:00

pages

937-949

issue

7

eissn

1942-7603

issn

1942-7611

journal_volume

11

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