Serum Vitamin D And Serum Ferritin Levels In Male Pattern Hair Loss:Is There A role?

Abstract

Male androgenetic alopecia is the most common cause of alopecia in men. The pathogenesis involves androgen-induced minaturisation of terminal hairs into vellus hairs in affected regions of the scalp. Some degree of follicular minaturisation and consequential hair loss is universal and is considered to be a physiological secondary sexual characteristic. Various studies evaluated serum ferritin level and serum vitamin d levels in patients with alopecia. Most studies done on female patients with alopecia with very constracting results.Very few studies evaluated serum ferritin level and serum vitamin D levels in males with androgenetic alopecia, so we tried to spot light in that issue. The aim of this study is to measure serum vitamin D and serum ferritin levels in patients with male pattern hair loss compared to control. This study was conducted in Dermatology Department of Fayoum University Hospital. 60 male subjects were included, 30 patients had androgenetic alopecia and 30 apparently healthy volunteers as control group. Our results show that vitamin D was statistically significantly lower in patients with androgenetic alopecia. While there was no statistically significant difference in Ferritin levels between both groups.