3 citations
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August 1986 in “BMJ. British medical journal” Women with excessive hair growth often have hormonal issues and need medical advice and treatment.
April 2025 in “Pharmacy Practice” This study assessed the impact of hormonal contraceptives on liver function in 46 women aged 25-45 and found that contraceptive users, particularly those using combined oral contraceptives, had significantly higher liver enzyme levels compared to non-users, suggesting potential adverse effects that warrant further investigation.
April 2025 in “Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine” In this study, the analysis of PCOS subreddit data revealed that lifestyle changes and supplements were perceived positively for managing PCOS symptoms, while contraceptives were often linked with negative experiences, except when they included anti-androgenic progestins.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” In this study, researchers analyzed spermogram data from men with diagnosed infertility in Ukraine, aiming to identify the most common sperm disorders, and they found that the study primarily involved men with primary infertility, compared to a control group of healthy men with confirmed fertility.
May 2003 in “Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America” This review discusses the genetic and hormonal factors contributing to androgenetic alopecia in men and women, but reports no new clinical results; it highlights that the exact causes remain unknown.
55 citations
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August 2008 in “Reviews in endocrine and metabolic disorders” This review discusses clinical, hormonal, and genetic aspects of nonclassic adrenal hyperplasia and reports no new findings; the condition is highlighted as a potential cause of premature adrenarche and other symptoms in young people.
87 citations
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March 2011 in “Australasian Journal of Dermatology” This review explores the current understanding of genetic and hormonal influences on male androgenetic alopecia and female pattern hair loss, providing guidance for clinicians but reports no new results.
86 citations
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February 2003 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” This article discusses various mechanisms for promoting hair growth in pattern hair loss and highlights the challenge of balancing short-term measurable results in trials with the need for long-term efficacy data.
7 citations
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January 2017 in “American Journal of Biological Anthropology” This review explores the various genetic, hormonal, environmental, and nutritional factors proposed to explain the historically shorter stature of Sardinians, while reporting no new empirical findings.
4 citations
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September 2024 in “The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine” This review highlights that obesity is linked to various hormonal imbalances beyond diabetes, prompting attention to related endocrine disorders in obese patients, including their prevalence, clinical presentation, and treatment considerations.
2 citations
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August 2025 in “Scientific Reports” This study analyzed pexidartinib-associated adverse events from FDA data and reported common events such as hepatic issues and systemic reactions. It highlighted sex-specific susceptibilities and reinforced the need for risk mitigation and long-term monitoring in tenosynovial giant cell tumor management.
2 citations
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September 2002 in “Journal of Endocrinological Investigation” The GH-IGF-I axis is likely involved in the hormonal imbalances seen in non-obese women with functional hyperandrogenism.
1 citations
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January 2018 in “BMJ” This abstract highlights that Hickey and colleagues provided an overview of non-hormonal treatments for menopausal symptoms but missed discussing female pattern hair loss (FPHL), a common issue during menopause.
133 citations
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February 2017 in “PLoS Genetics” In this study, researchers used genetic data from over 52,000 men to identify over 250 genetic loci associated with severe hair loss and developed a predictive algorithm for determining hair loss risk.
4 citations
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July 2021 in “Dermatology and therapy” This review examines changes in hair physiology and treatment options for transgender patients on hormonal therapy but reports no new clinical findings, offering treatment recommendations based on the authors' experiences.
1 citations
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September 2020 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” Men have worse COVID-19 outcomes than women due to genetic and hormonal differences.
March 2026 in “International Journal of Pharmacology” This study explored a method using deep solvents in the presence of ultrasound to efficiently extract lignans from flax seeds, aiming to maximize their health benefits like hormonal balance and reduced cancer risk, while minimizing toxicity.
September 2025 in “Matics Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Teknologi Informasi (Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology)” This study found that among various predictive models for baldness risk, Random Forest Regression performed best with the lowest mean squared error and highest R², indicating strong predictive accuracy, especially with complex datasets, while Linear Regression was better suited to simpler datasets.
May 2024 in “Journal of drug delivery and therapeutics” This study found that women with polycystic ovarian syndrome at a gynecology clinic in Nnewi exhibited significant oxidative stress and hormonal imbalances compared to controls.
June 1972 in “Archives of internal medicine” This book reviews hair morphology, growth physiology, and hormonal influences but offers no new research findings and is critiqued for its inadequate index and distracting references.
39 citations
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August 2004 in “International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics” This study found that both finasteride and a regimen of cyproterone acetate plus ethinyl estradiol effectively reduced hirsutism in women, with similar results despite differing hormonal effects.
374 citations
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May 2016 in “The Lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology” This article reviews the clinical complications and increased mortality risks associated with Cushing's syndrome but does not present new clinical data; it emphasizes the need for prompt treatment to mitigate these risks.
222 citations
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January 2014 in “International journal of reproductive medicine” This paper reviews the complex pathophysiology of polycystic ovary syndrome, exploring how hormonal and metabolic disturbances contribute to its symptoms and related health risks, but it presents no new findings.
86 citations
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February 2009 in “Journal of Neuroscience” This study found that during late pregnancy in rats, there is an increase in extrasynaptic GABA A receptor number in granule cells of the dentate gyrus, linked to hormonal fluctuations.
70 citations
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March 2010 in “The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” This study discusses the potential of targeting 11β-HSD1 for treating metabolic syndrome and highlights emerging promising data from human trials on selective 11β-HSD1 inhibitors.
51 citations
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February 2006 in “Clinics in Dermatology” This review discusses the physiological changes in the female body during pregnancy, relating them to hormonal shifts, and comments on treatment considerations, but it presents no new research findings.
44 citations
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April 2015 in “PubMed” This study reports that clinical trials of finasteride for androgenic alopecia provide insufficient and systematically biased safety data, with most participants unrepresentative of those in pivotal trials that led to FDA approval.
20 citations
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September 2020 in “International journal of computer applications” This study found that the Random Forest machine learning algorithm achieved the highest accuracy, 96%, in diagnosing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome using patients' clinical data.
14 citations
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June 2021 in “British journal of dermatology/British journal of dermatology, Supplement” This paper presents consensus guidelines for standardized diagnostic criteria and assessment methods for frontal fibrosing alopecia to improve clinical research and data collection globally.
8 citations
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December 2015 in “The Journal of Physiology” This review examines regulatory mechanisms of quiescent stem cells in tissue homeostasis, drawing on observations from the intestine and other self-renewing tissues, without presenting new data.