A Really Bad Hair Day
The report, published in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), concluded that men with typical male pattern baldness-that is, spreading outward from the crown or “vertex” of the head-are anywhere from 30 to 300 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than men with little or no hair loss at all. There was no apparent risk for those with the receding hairlines etched by frontal baldness. And researchers were also quick to point out that what they’d found was a strictly statistical relationship between hair loss and heart disease....