Is Heart Disease Associated with Androgenic Hair Loss?
Heart Disease and Androgenic Hair Loss At first sight appear to be completely different and unrelated conditions, but if we look the physiopathology behind both conditions then we can understand the relationship between them. Insulin resistance is defined as an impaired biological response to insulin which in turn produces an insufficient transport of glucose between the skeletal muscle, fat tissue, and liver. Insulin resistance is the underlining problem in both type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Both of these conditions are well known risk factors for coronary heart disease. Androgenic alopecia is a disorder which causes hair loss in genetically predisposed men and women. Visit: ANDROGENIC HAIR LOSS It requires levels of circulating androgens, and a genetic predisposition. In these individuals, the hair follicles are genetically sensitive to androgens which cause them to atrophy or “shrink.” Previous studies published in the early 2000′s have shown early androge...