Male pattern baldness and its association with coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis

Male pattern baldness and its association with coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis

OBJECTIVE To confirm the association between male pattern baldness and coronary heart disease (CHD). DESIGN Meta-analysis of observational studies. DATA SOURCES Medline and the Cochrane Library were searched for articles published up to November 2012 using keywords that included both 'baldness' and 'coronary heart disease' and the reference lists of those studies identified were also search...

Male baldness; association with coronary artery disease?

androgenetic alopecia who also present with particularly elevated dihydrotestosterone–testosterone ratios. The baldness theory should be included as a secondary hypothesis in large epidemiological studies of CAD. These predominantly inconclusive studies from the previous century are counterbalanced by several other positive studies performed in the current century. In 2000, Lotufo et al. [5] sh...

Association of male pattern baldness with angiographic coronary artery disease severity and collateral development

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate whether there is an association between male pattern baldness and angiographic coronary artery disease (CAD) severity and collateral development, which has not been reported previously. METHODS Coronary arteriograms, CAD risk factors, lipid parameters and presence and severity of baldness in 511 male patients were prospectively evaluated. Baldness was classif...

Does Fungal Infection Cause Male Pattern Baldness and Heart Disease?

Male pattern baldness and coronary heart disease: the Physicians' Health Study.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between male pattern baldness and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) events. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study among 22,071 US male physicians aged 40 to 84 years enrolled in the Physicians' Health Study. Of these, 19,112 were free of CHD at baseline and completed a questionnaire at the 11-year follow-up concerning their pa...