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Article: Testosterone levels rise in young women with female pattern hair loss.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- September 8, 2003
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2003 SEP 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Testosterone levels rise in young women with female pattern hair loss.
"Production rates of testosterone (T) and of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) were determined in young women (n = 8, age, 23 to 40 years) with female-pattern hair loss using the stable isotope dilution technique and mass spectrometry. 1alpha,2alpha-D-testosterone and 2,3,4- C-13-dihydro-testosterone were infused for 10 hours at a dose of 2 microgram/h each and blood samples were obtained at 20-minute intervals during the last 4 hours of the observation period," described H. Vierhapper and colleagues, University Vienna, Third Department of Internal Medicine.
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