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Balding in men worsens with age.
Early baldness and little chest hair may indicate higher prostate cancer risk.
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March 2021 in “Frontiers in Medicine” Female pattern hair loss shows similar characteristics in both genders and should be classified by hair loss patterns, not gender.
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