For medicin hun har taget i 10 år som er blevet forbudt 1. januar 2016. Vel uheldigt mest af alt.
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- Meldonium is used to treat ischaemia: a lack of blood flow to parts of the body
- It is manufactured in Latvia and not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the United States (så må det være grelt...)
- It increases blood flow, which improves exercise capacity in athletes
- Wada found “evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance”
- The decision to add meldonium to the banned list was approved on 16 September, 2015, and it came into effect on 1 January, 2016
-A memo was sent out to athletes by Russia’s anti-doping agency last September informing them of the decision to ban its use
- Sharapova says she has been taking the drug for 10 years after she was regularly falling ill. She had a magnesium deficiency and family history of diabetes
The Latvian company that manufactures meldonium says the normal course of treatment for the drug is four to six weeks - not the 10 years that Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova says she used the substance.
"Depending on the patient´s health condition, treatment course of meldonium preparations may vary from four to six weeks. Treatment course can be repeated twice or thrice a year," the company said in an emailed statement.
"I was first given the substance back in 2006. I had several health issues going on at the time," she said. Sharapova didn´t specify whether she had used it constantly since then.
...the company said Tuesday that it believed the substance would not enhance athletes´ performance in competition and might even do the opposite.
"It would be reasonable to recommend them to use meldonium as a cell protector to avoid heart failure or muscle damage in case of unwanted overload," the company said.