study indicates it may affect men with baldness more

According to a recent study, men with baldness may be at increased risk for severe symptoms of coronavirus. In fact, the link is so close that some researchers suggest that alopecia should be considered a risk factor.

Gabrin sign. This is how the doctors baptized the phenomenon, after Dr. Frank Gabrin, an American doctor, died of covid-19. “We really believe that baldness is a perfect predictor of gravity,” Carlos Wambier told The Telegraph, referring to the study that was carried out at Brown University.

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First, when the outbreak had only just begun in Wuhan, China, science showed that men are more likely to die after contracting coronavirus. This week, a report from Public Health England added that working-age men were twice as likely as women to die after being diagnosed with covid-19. The cause was hidden from scientists, who generally pointed to factors such as lifestyle, smoking, and differences in the immune system between men and women.

Now, it is increasingly believed that it could be because androgens – male sex hormones like testosterone – may play a role not only in hair loss, but also in increasing the coronavirus’s ability to attack cells.

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This finding increases the possibility that treatments that suppress these hormones, such as those used for baldness and diseases like prostate cancer, can be used to slow down the virus, giving patients time to fight it. “We believe that androgens or male hormones are definitely the gateway for the virus to enter our cells,” said Professor Wambier.

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There is another study, in parallel, that shows similar results. In addition to the trial discussing the use of baldness medications in the USA. In the US, Matthew Rettig – an oncologist at the University of California, Los Angeles – presented a study of 200 men in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York, who use medications for prostate cancer. From these studies it emerged that a high number of men with baldness had to be hospitalized for the coronavirus.

In a study of 122 patients, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, which followed previous work among 41 patients in Spanish hospitals, found that 71% were bald. While there are scientists who argued that further research was needed to reach conclusions, the finding seems promising for finding a treatment for the virus.

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