A preliminary observation: Male pattern hair loss among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Spain - A potential clue to the role of androgens in COVID-19 severity

Andy Goren; Sergio Vaño-Galván; Carlos Gustavo Wambier; John McCoy; Alba Gomez-Zubiaur; Oscar M Moreno-Arrones; Jerry Shapiro; Rodney D Sinclair; Michael H Gold; Maja Kovacevic; Natasha Atanaskova Mesinkovska; Mohamad Goldust; Ken Washenik

doi:10.1111/jocd.13443

A preliminary observation: Male pattern hair loss among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Spain - A potential clue to the role of androgens in COVID-19 severity

J Cosmet Dermatol. 2020 Jul;19(7):1545-1547. doi: 10.1111/jocd.13443. Epub 2020 Apr 23.

Affiliations

¹ Applied Biology, Inc., Irvine, CA, USA.
² Dermatology Department, Ramon y Cajal Hospital, IRYCIS, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
³ Department of Dermatology, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Principe de Asturias Hospital, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
⁵ Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Sinclair Dermatology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
⁷ Gold Skin Care Center, Advanced Aesthetics Medical Spa, The Laser & Rejuvenation Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁸ Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Clinical Hospital Center Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁹ Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine of the University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
¹¹ Bosley Medical Group, Beverly Hills, CA, USA.

PMID: 32301221
DOI: 10.1111/jocd.13443

Abstract

A preliminary observation of high frequency of male pattern hair loss among admitted COVID-19 patients and suggest that androgen expression might be a clue to COVID-19 severity.

Keywords: 5-alpha reductase; ACE2; SARS-CoV-2; TMPRSS2; androgenetic alopecia.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Alopecia / diagnosis
Alopecia / epidemiology*
Androgens / blood*
Biomarkers / blood
COVID-19
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Disease Outbreaks / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Spain
Young Adult

Substances

Androgens
Biomarkers