Men with baldness are at risk for coronary artery disease

In addition to their inferiority mentality, men now bear new fears when the online journal BMJ Open on April 3 published research showing that bald people are at higher risk of vascular-related diseases. rim.

Researchers at the Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Tokyo (Japan) analyzed six studies on the relationship between male pattern baldness and coronary artery disease, conducted from 1993 to 2008 with 40,000 participants in the US and Europe.

The results showed that the risk of coronary artery disease in bald men was 1/3 higher than that of men with normal hair and the higher the level of baldness, the higher the risk of disease. Studies have also shown that baldness from the top of the head involves more coronary artery disease than baldness from the forehead.

Researchers have not yet determined the reason for the link between baldness and coronary artery disease, but have mentioned a link between baldness and insulin resistance, diabetes, menstrual inflammation. year or expression sensitive to male hormone testosterone.

Factors that can lead to coronary artery disease. They recommend that physicians carefully review coronary factors in male bald patients at the top of the head, especially young male patients, and call on the scientific community to continue similar studies. to reinforce this new finding.

According to the study, about 30-40% of adult men who participated in the study had baldness. This rate is up to 80% in grandparents over 80 years old.