The bald facts: Smokers risk hair loss – as well as fatal illnesses.

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
Published: 26 November 2007

Smoking is known to make your legs fall off. Now, it appears, it makes your hair fall out, too – and possibly for the same reasons.

A study of Asian men, renowned for hanging on to their hair compared with follically-challenged Europeans and Americans, found puffing on cigarettes can hasten male hair loss.

Smoking is known to accelerate ageing and is associated with facial wrinkles and grey hair. It is also causes a dozen different kinds of cancer and heart disease and damages circulation.

But none of this counts for much with the average red- blooded male – at least not as much as maintaining a healthy head of hair. Unlike grey hair and wrinkled skin, baldness is harder to treat and harder to disguise. Doctors see the latest discovery as a potentially valuable weapon in the battle to persuade smokers to give up.

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Smoking accelerates men's hair loss: Study.

Mon Nov 19, 2007

CHICAGO (Reuters) – While Asian men generally have less trouble than Caucasians with the most common form of hereditary male baldness, smoking cigarettes may erase that edge, researchers said on Monday.

Smoking may destroy hair follicles, interfere with the way blood and hormones are circulated in the scalp or increase the production of estrogen, said Lin-Hui Su of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen of National Taiwan University in Taipei.

A look at 740 men in Taiwan with an average age of 65 found cigarette use played an important role “in the development of moderate or severe” hair loss, Su and Chin said, in cases where the men smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day.

But generally speaking the risk of androgenic alopecia — the common male hair loss that occurs in various patterns — was slower among the Taiwanese men than among “persons of white race/ethnicity” as measured by previous studies elsewhere.

The study, published in the November issue of the Archives of Dermatology, recommended that men showing early signs of hair loss should be advised about the role smoking can play to prevent further progression.

While the kind of hair loss studied is common among whites, it is less common among blacks, Asians and native Americans, the study said. Three previous studies on the impact of smoking produced inconsistent results, it added.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1629763320071119

First Published by us on 20th November 2007.

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Smoking accelerates men’s hair loss: Study.

Mon Nov 19, 2007

CHICAGO (Reuters) – While Asian men generally have less trouble than Caucasians with the most common form of hereditary male baldness, smoking cigarettes may erase that edge, researchers said on Monday.

Smoking may destroy hair follicles, interfere with the way blood and hormones are circulated in the scalp or increase the production of estrogen, said Lin-Hui Su of the Far Eastern Memorial Hospital and Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen of National Taiwan University in Taipei.

A look at 740 men in Taiwan with an average age of 65 found cigarette use played an important role “in the development of moderate or severe” hair loss, Su and Chin said, in cases where the men smoked 20 or more cigarettes a day.

But generally speaking the risk of androgenic alopecia — the common male hair loss that occurs in various patterns — was slower among the Taiwanese men than among “persons of white race/ethnicity” as measured by previous studies elsewhere.

The study, published in the November issue of the Archives of Dermatology, recommended that men showing early signs of hair loss should be advised about the role smoking can play to prevent further progression.

While the kind of hair loss studied is common among whites, it is less common among blacks, Asians and native Americans, the study said. Three previous studies on the impact of smoking produced inconsistent results, it added.

For the full story go to:

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN1629763320071119

First Published by us on 20th November 2007.

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