Supplementary Figure 2 From Male-Pattern Vertex Baldness Trajectories, Chest Hair Patterns, and Odds of Overall and Aggressive Prostate Cancer

January 2024

Charlotte Salmon, Miceline Mésidor, Marie‐Claude Rousseau, Hugues Richard, Deborah Weiß, Andrea R. Spence, Marie‐Élise Parent

Studysummary This abstract provides a directed acyclic graph of the association between chest hair amount and prostate cancer, highlighting variables and potential confounders, but it reports no new research findings. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.

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