Male-pattern baldness and incident coronary heart disease and risk factors in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.

ABSTRACT: Male-pattern baldness (MPB) is characterized by a progressive hair loss from the frontal and vertex scalp that affects about 80% of men at the age of 80 years. Epidemiological studies show positive associations between MPB and coronary heart disease (CHD) and CHD related risk factors such as blood pressure (BP), diabetes mellitus (DM) or elevated blood lipid levels. The results however vary with regard to the pattern of hair loss (i.e. moderate, severe, frontal or vertex). Further, no study has investigated for a shared genetic determinant between MPB and CHD as well as CHD related risk factors. Using the longitudinal data from the population-based Heinz Nixdorf Recall study we aimed to systematically investigate the association between MPB and incident CHD and CHD risk factors on (i) an e

SUBMITTER: Pechlivanis S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863534 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature