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News & ArtsTuesday, March 16, 2010
Health / Life It's Not a Bald Spot...
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM
... it's a solar panel for not-getting prostate cancer.
A receding hairline can be a good thing, according to US scientists, who say men who go bald by 30 appear to be less likely to develop prostate cancer.Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine studied 2,000 men aged between 40 and 47.
They were able to link high levels of the male hormone testosterone in those who lose their hair earlier with a lower risk of tumours.
The journal article, in this month's issue of Cancer Epidemiology is here and contains this pleasant sentence:
Given the prevalence of hair loss with increasing age and evidence that eunuchs will only demonstrate baldness if castrated after age 25 or if supplemented with testosterone, it may be important to capture hair patterning at critical periods of time if its utility as a risk factor is to be adequately tested.
Baldies rejoice!
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- A baldy, rejoicing.
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As far as I'm concerned, baldness is sexy because it's a testosterone signifier. Testosterone does good things for me as a woman. Just saying.
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Interesting, but that's not what the summary said.
Early baldness or African-American racial status are both risk factors for getting prostate cancer.
Read it again.
Early baldness or African-American racial status are both risk factors for getting prostate cancer.
Read it again.
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as a woman, i object to getting spam about making "it" bigger or harder. i don't look forward to getting spammed for test toaster one, also.
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Photo guy is awesome. Like, 10 kinds of awesome.
@3: my husband has what I euphemistically call a "very-thin" spot and has a sex drive so low we've discussed whether he might be asexual. So from personal experience, I would say it is not the best indicator. But, I'm sure you weren't taking it as an absolute, anyway.
@3: my husband has what I euphemistically call a "very-thin" spot and has a sex drive so low we've discussed whether he might be asexual. So from personal experience, I would say it is not the best indicator. But, I'm sure you weren't taking it as an absolute, anyway.
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uhhh... i don't think the article is describing the study you linked to. either that or the person who wrote the article got the study results spectacularly wrong.
the study found a non-statistically significant association between baldness and prostate cancer; the only thing remarkable about their findings is that there is concordance between 2 separate studies, but since these results are not statistically significant there's really nothing to see here.
the study found a non-statistically significant association between baldness and prostate cancer; the only thing remarkable about their findings is that there is concordance between 2 separate studies, but since these results are not statistically significant there's really nothing to see here.
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I would guess that baldies have (in general) less sexual partners. Less sexual partners might mean less exposure to the STDs that they are trying to link with causing prostate cancer...
Ok it was a reach but could also be true!
Ok it was a reach but could also be true!
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Hey That's me! I was wondering why my blooming beard had so many hits today. Turns out it was good news for those of us that know the sting of male pattern baldness.
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That does make life a bit more fair! The pretty boys shouldn't have all the blessings!
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