How Safe and Effective Is Finasteride for Hair Loss in Postmenopausal Women?

    May 2011 in “ MOspace Institutional Repository (University of Missouri) ”
    Magdalena Pasarica, Philipp Narciso
    TLDR Finasteride at 1 mg daily doesn't help hair loss in postmenopausal women and has similar side effects to a placebo.
    In normoandrogenic postmenopausal women, finasteride at a dose of 1 mg per day did not improve hair loss, and its adverse event profile was similar to that of a placebo during the first year of use. This conclusion was based on a single randomized controlled trial (RCT), and higher doses of finasteride had not been studied in RCTs for this population.
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