Is There a Relationship between Androgenic Alopecia and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?

Androgenic alopecia as a physiologic process and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) as a pathologic process in the older population are androgen-dependent processes influenced by 5-alpha reductase enzyme which converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone. This cross sectional study was done to evalu...

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Main Authors: Ladan Dastgheib, Mehdi Shirazi, Iman Moezzi, Saber Dehghan, Maryam-Sadat Sadati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2015-01-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
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Online Access:https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4940