Meldonium or mildronate, also known as mildronāts, Quaterine, MET-88, and THP (for its chemical name, see below) is a limited-market cardiac drug manufactured by Grindeks, a Latvian pharmaceutical company, and distributed online in Eastern European countries as an anti-ischemia medication.[not verified in body] It is not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and is not legally available in the United States.[citation needed] Since January 1st 2016 it has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of substances banned from use by athletes;[1] some athletes are known to have been using it before it was banned.[2]
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