But that's beside the point. In the court of a followup questionnaire, they were asked about their hair. Men with severe baldness seem to have a greater number of androgen receptors in the scalp. They evidently also have generally higher testosterone levels. The obvious inference is that early baldness could be a useful marker in treating younger men who are hypertensive.
More study clearly is required.
It used to bedevil me that I began to look like Tommy Smothers in my early 20s, but I came to terms with it, rather than dramatically opting to shave my dome completely at a time when most other men were luxuriating in their hirsuteness. My favourite T-shirt explained that the thing sticking out the neckhole wasn't a bald head. Even today, my barber simply hauls out his No. 2 clippers when I walk in. Lost amid all the headline-grabbing hysteria is the fact the genes that encourage CHD are not connected to the ones that cause premature baldness. That said, there is a theory these two sets of genes are an inherited package deal.