Can Biotin Supplementation be Used to Mask hCG Abuse?
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2022-12-30
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This sponsor is an anti-doping laboratory tasked with testing athlete samples for prohibited
substances by the World Anti-Doping Agency and other agencies.
This study is intended to measure:
1. Urinary/serum hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) and urinary biotin concentrations in
both treatment groups before, during, and after hCG intervention using standard
immunoassay methods
2. To monitor hCG in both treatment groups before and after diafiltration of urine samples
prior to analysis
3. To compare urinary and serum detectability (detection window, sensitivity) of hCG abuse
in the hCG-only group compared to the hCG + biotin group