OBJECTIVE: Although androgenic alopecia is recognised to be a symptom of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), it is not known whether polycystic ovaries (PCO) and associated endocrine abnormalities are present in patients who present with alopecia as a primary [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Androgenic pattern presentation of scarring and inflammatory alopecia First published: 02 July 2010 Cited by: 2 No abstract is available for this article. [doi.org]

• Fishing

  In the fish extract treatment group three patients withdrew from the study before the fourth month due to lack of therapeutic effect. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

  There are many other drugs available, like dutasteride, low-dose oral minoxidil, spironolactone, cyproterone acetate, ginseng, fish oil, vitamin E, and many herbal medicines, but these are not US FDA approved, and their efficacy is under debate.12 Surgical [doi.org]

• Abdominal Obesity

  Abdominal obesity, hypertension and lowered high-density lipoprotein were significantly higher in patients with androgenic alopecia versus their respective controls. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

See Workup for more detail. [emedicine.medscape.com]

After 6 months' treatment, patients receiving ViviScal showed a mean increase in non-vellus hair of 38% compared with a 2% increase in the fish extract treatment group (P < 0.0001). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Prognosis The prognosis of androgenetic alopecia is unknown. Some patients progress to the point where they lose almost all of the hair on the scalp. Others have a patterned or nonpatterned thinning but retain a considerable number of scalp hairs. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Citing Literature Number of times cited according to CrossRef: 2 Beata Bergler-Czop, Hubert Arasiewicz and Ligia Brzezińska-Wcisło, Cicatricial alopecia: What’s new in etiology?, European Journal of Inflammation, 13, 3, (139), (2015). [doi.org]

Although etiological studies have proved that androgen is one of the causes of this symptom, the defined molecular mechanism underlying androgen-related actions remains largely unknown. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

It is possible that common polymorphisms in genes that encode steroid hormones and their reductases and other relevant molecules, e.g., the genes for IGF (and its receptor), the AR, and aromatase, might influence the etiology of all these conditions. [cebp.aacrjournals.org]

Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy *Department of Dermatology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia †Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia ‡Cancer [oadoi.org]

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies have associated androgenetic alopecia (AGA) with severe young-age coronary artery disease and hypertension, and linked it to insulin resistance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

This article provides an overview of the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of adolescent androgenic alopecia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] release date: 1995 Number of Print Pages: 3 Number of Figures: 0 Number of Tables: 0 ISSN: 1018-8665 (Print) eISSN: 1421-9832 (Online) For additional information: https://www.karger.com/DRM Abstract Cytokines play an important role in both physiology and pathophysiology [doi.org]

Psychological effect, pathophysiology, and management of androgenetic alopecia in men. Mayo Clin Proc. 2005 Oct. 80(10):1316-22. [Medline]. Lesko SM, Rosenberg L, Shapiro S. [emedicine.medscape.com]

The injected wax failed to prevent androgenic alopecia and created a remodeling of the outer table of the cortex of the skull. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia †Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia ‡Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, 1 Rathdowne Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia §Department of Preventive [oadoi.org]