Q.Players using peptide hormones to enhance performance suffer from serious side effects. What are these side effects?

The textbook's detailed peptide-hormone example is Human Growth Hormone (hGH), whose misuse carries seven listed side effects. …

hGH, also called somatotrophin, is naturally secreted by the pituitary gland and drives bone/muscle/organ growth via IGF-1 — effects that can boost sporting performance, which is why it is misused. The textbook lists its side effects: diabetes in individuals already prone to it, worsening of heart disease along with muscle, joint and bone pain, hypertension, cardiac deficiency, abnormal growth of organs, accelerated osteoarthritis, and enlargement of the extremi …