The Association Between Dyslipidemia and Androgenic Alopecia: A Cross-Sectional Study From the Persian Guilan Cohort Study

    July 2026 in “ Endocrine and Metabolic Science ”
    Radin Behboodi, Hojat Eftekhari, Niloofar Faraji … Fariborz Mansour‐Ghanaei
    Studysummary This study found that dyslipidemia was associated with a higher risk of androgenic alopecia in females, driven by low HDL and multiple lipid abnormalities, but not in males.
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