Male baldness 'indicates heart risk'

[yeahyeahyeah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22014173

See above.

[Kayman]

I read this in todays paper, however bald or no bald, eat well, excercise, dont smoke and your heart will be healthy. Being bald wont put you in the same danger bracket as smokers or heavy drinkers or the obese. My grandad on my mothers side had a dodgy ticker and he had hair into his seventies so hair or not im always concious of my heart health, no problems yet thankfully.

[Breaking Bald]

How/Why would these two things be related??

[baldozer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22014173

See above.

What rubbish, my father is 70, bald and fit, while several of his NW0s and NW1s friend are already dead!

[Exodus]

It's all rubbish. As Kayman said, be healthy and live well, you'll be fine, bald or NW1.

[BigThinker]

"Male baldness 'indicates heart risk'"

[john2399]

oh how great it is to be bald=]

[ChrisM]

I have to call bulls**t on that one. If that statement was scientifically accurate millions of people would be dead already on the planet. There are bald men that live to well over 100 years old and die of natural causes and men with full heads of hair that barely live past 40 years old of heart disease. Hair loss has no genetic correlation to cardiovascular disease though both have genetic triggers within the DNA. Some of the genetics can be offset and the switch that triggers the negative heart ailments can be flipped the other way with better nutrition, exercise and proper monitoring of hypertension or lessening alcohol intake and of course no smoking.