Table 3. Anonymous Surveys of American High-School Students that Report the Prevalence of Anabolic Steroid Use in Girls.

Study	Location	Sample	N	Reported lifetime prevalence of AAS Use	Question regarding “steroids”
Durant et al., 1993	Georgia	ninth-grade girls	919	1.9%	CDC questiona
Tanner et al., 1995	Colorado	high-school girls	3497	1.3%	Have you ever used anabolic steroids?
Scott et al., 1996	Nebraska	middle- and high-school girls	2522	0.8%b	information not supplied
Fisher et al., 1996	New York City	girls in high-school gym class	461c	4%c	information not supplied
Faigenbaum et al., 1998	Massachusetts	middle-school girls	499	2.8%	Have you ever taken steroids?
Irving et al., 2002	Minnesota	middle-school girls	740d	5.7%e	How often have you use steroids in order to gain muscle during the past year?
		high-school girls	1430d	1.4%e
Elliot et al., 2004	Oregon, Washington	female high-school athletes	928	0.1%	“similar to” MTF and CDC questions

^aQuestion was “How many times have you taken steroid pills or shots without a doctor's prescription?

^bUse of AAS in past 30 days

^cExact number not supplied

^dEstimated number; exact number not supplied

^eUse of AAS in past 12 months