Bald men face higher risk of severe Covid-19, researchers claim
Anyone who has seen This Writer in person may be aware that I would have reason to be very worried about this – if I took it seriously.
Trouble is, this is just as likely to be a scare story of the kind that the Daily Mail used to run all the time. Is there anything left that that rag hasn’t claimed causes cancer?
Bald men may be at higher risk of suffering from severe Covid-19 symptoms, emerging evidence suggests.
The link is so strong that some researchers are suggesting baldness should be considered a risk factor called the “Gabrin sign”, after the first US physician to die of Covid-19 in the United States, Dr Frank Gabrin, who was bald.
The lead author of the key study behind the association, Professor Carlos Wambier of Brown University, told The Telegraph: “We really think that baldness is a perfect predictor of severity.”
Data since the beginning of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in January has shown that men are more likely to die after getting coronavirus. In the UK, a report this week from Public Health England found that working-age males were twice as likely as females to die after being diagnosed with Covid-19.
Until recently, scientists have been at a loss at why this might be, pointing to factors such as lifestyle, smoking, and immune system differences between the sexes. But increasingly they believe it could be because androgens – male sex hormones like testosterone – may play a part not only in hair loss, but also in boosting the ability of coronavirus to attack cells.
This raises the possibility that treatments suppressing these hormones, such as those used for baldness as well as diseases like prostate cancer, could be used to slow the virus down, giving patients time to fight it off.
Source: Bald men at higher risk of severe case of Covid-19, research finds
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👨🦲 Yet another bloody reason to worry 👨🦲
IDS should be worried then.
Yet more Covid/lockdown fear porn.
The death toll in the UK has been significantly higher than elsewhere because we did not lock down soon enough, yet still you argue that it is nonsense. Grow up.