50 citations
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December 1998 in “Dermatologic Surgery” In this study, 42% of healthy men aged 18-49 showed moderate to extensive male pattern hair loss, with prevalence increasing significantly with age.
1 citations
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January 2017 in “대한피부과학회지” This study observed that male pattern hair loss patients are getting diagnosed earlier and presenting with milder forms, possibly due to early puberty, and noted frequent familial predisposition and comorbidities like seborrheic dermatitis.
26 citations
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September 2002 in “Dermatologic Surgery” This study reports that the prevalence of male pattern baldness in Asians is higher than previously believed, with potential links to socioeconomic factors and westernized diets, though the exact cause remains unclear.
January 2018 in “Georg Thieme Verlag eBooks” Hair transplantation is a surgical procedure to move hair to bald areas, requires good donor hair, and results show in about a year.
January 2010 in “Elsevier eBooks” Hair transplantation is a treatment for hair loss mainly caused by genetics, with various techniques and potential complications, and results visible after 8-12 months.
41 citations
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May 2001 in “PubMed” This study proposes a new clinical scoring method for hair density based on hair diameter diversity, which correlates with existing measures and reflects follicle miniaturization in androgenetic alopecia.
40 citations
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December 1980 in “The Journal of Dermatologic Surgery and Oncology” This review describes an improved scalp reduction technique that removes two to three times more bald skin than previous methods, utilizing wide undermining, serial relaxing incisions, and adrenocorticosteroids.
28 citations
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March 2007 in “Journal of The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology” In this study, researchers found that the existing Norwood and Hamilton classifications for androgenetic alopecia in Indian males had significant limitations, with 18% of cases not fitting into existing pattern categories.
4 citations
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October 2012 in “Archives of Dermatology” Hair diameter diversity is a key sign for diagnosing and managing male pattern baldness.
1 citations
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March 2014 in “PubMed” In this study, researchers examined women with androgenic alopecia in the Indian subcontinent and found varying patterns of hair loss, with inconclusive hormonal profiles but potentially useful hair pull tests and trichograms.
June 2024 in “Skin Research and Technology” This study found that patients with severe male pattern hair loss had lower hair density in the occipital region compared to those with mild or moderate cases.
March 2008 in “International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery” This study observed that Taiwanese men aged 40–91 who smoked 20 or more cigarettes daily had a higher incidence of moderate to severe androgenetic alopecia.
4 citations
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January 2013 in “European Journal of Dermatology” Epigenetic differences affect hair loss in identical Japanese male twins.
January 2025 in “International Journal of Scientific Research” This study found that female pattern hair loss was present in 12.5% of PCOS patients examined, with most cases in younger women, highlighting early detection and management importance.
July 2024 in “JAAD International” This letter discusses androgenetic alopecia in men and the need for more research to understand its progression with age, reporting no new clinical results.
In this study conducted at Saveetha Dental College, researchers found that the severity of male androgenetic alopecia, as graded by Norwood's classification, increased with age, although other factors such as genetic or hormonal influences were not assessed.
June 2017 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” The new treatment was safe and may effectively treat male pattern hair loss.
October 2021 in “DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)” In this hospital-based cross-sectional study, researchers observed that trichoscopy effectively differentiates between severe and mild male pattern hair loss by identifying specific features such as yellow and white dots, vellus hair, and hair shaft diversity.
July 2019 in “Journal of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery” This study found no significant link between headcover use and the severity of male-pattern hair loss among adult males, with age being the only associated factor.
90 citations
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June 2006 in “The American Journal of Dermatopathology” This review outlines the classification, histopathologic presentation, and pathogenetic concepts of scarring and nonscarring alopecias, reporting no new clinical results and emphasizing the need for clinicopathologic correlation.
9 citations
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August 2001 in “PubMed” This review discusses the classification and diagnosis of hair loss and emphasizes that nonpermanent alopecia can achieve full regrowth with appropriate treatment, but reports no new results.
July 2026 in “International Journal of Advanced Research in Science Communication and Technology” In this study, the BaldGraphFormer framework, integrating visual and clinical data, outperformed unimodal baselines in early-stage androgenetic alopecia detection, achieving an F1-score of 97.62% and macro-average AUC of 0.992, suggesting its potential to support dermatological decision-making and early intervention.
28 citations
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September 2014 in “Journal of Clinical Oncology” This study observed that frontal plus moderate vertex baldness at age 45 was associated with a higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer in a large cohort.
January 2023 in “Türkiye klinikleri adli tıp ve adli bilimler dergisi” This review discusses forensic DNA phenotyping, focusing on male pattern baldness and its prediction through SNP markers, but reports no new results.
January 1998 in “KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU” The document suggests that male hormones likely affect hair growth and baldness, and future treatments might involve stem cells and androgen-independent cells.
41 citations
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July 2018 in “Frontiers in Neurology” This study suggests that myotonic dystrophies may qualify as segmental progeroid disorders due to molecular and clinical similarities with typical progeroid syndromes.
This study aims to develop an automatic machine learning-based method using the VGG-19 model to accurately classify various hair and scalp diseases.
21 citations
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May 1996 in “Current problems in dermatology” This article reviews various causes and investigative techniques for different forms of alopecia and reports no new findings.
5 citations
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June 2012 in “Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology” This review discusses female pattern hair loss as distinct from androgenetic alopecia and suggests that clinicians use tools like dermoscopy and histopathology for more accurate diagnosis, without reporting new findings.
2 citations
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May 2002 in “PubMed” This review explores follicular unit micro-graft hair transplants for androgenetic alopecia, emphasizing their painless and permanent hair restoration capabilities, but it presents no new clinical findings.