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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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0 6 - 0 6 - 2 0 0 5 Steroid-using doorman died of heart failure
Wakefield Today
A DOORMAN from Ossett died of heart failure as a result of using steroids, an inquest heard. William Geddes, known locally as Billy, was found dead in his bed by his girlfriend at their home on King Street on February 9 this year.
The inquest heard how the 37-year-old had been interested in weight training for more than 10 years and worked out at the gym every day. His girlfriend Kelly Bolland told the inquest how Mr Geddes, who was born with a heart defect, injected himself with steroids every other day.
Ms Bolland said he told her the defect was nothing to worry about. She told the hearing she had no idea that steroids or body enhancing products could affect his health. The inquest heard how Mr Geddes had suffered bad headaches for months before his death but put them down to stress. Earlier this year, he began complaining of cramps in his arms and feet but he refused to go to the doctors.
Mr Geddes, who was separated with two children from a previous marriage, started sleeping a lot and Ms Bolland said she was not sure if he even got up when she was out at work. The inquest heard how, on the night of his death, Mr Geddes was agitated one minute but singing and dancing in front of the mirror the next.
Ms Bolland said her partner told her that he did not feel right before he went out to work that night but could not quite put his finger on the reason why.
The inquest heard how Mr Geddes returned home in the early hours of February 9 and went to bed shortly after. Ms Bolland told how she awoke in the middle of the night to find her partner standing in the middle of the bedroom complaining he felt hot.
She said she did not remember him getting back in to bed and did not wake again until she heard the alarm sounding.
She said: “He usually turns it off but I leaned over and did it. He didn’t move but I thought he was just pretending because I am always sleeping in and he had threatened to leave it ringing so I had to get up. When I moved the covers away from his back, I thought there was something wrong but didn’t want to believe it.”
The inquest heard how Mr Geddes died of acute heart failure due to steroid use. A post mortem showed Mr Geddes’s heart was twice the size of a normal one. Deputy assistant coroner Robert Chapman recorded a verdict of death by misadventure.
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