10 year study on Finasteride

[khan]

I appologize if this study has been discussed before, I couldn't find it on baldtruth so thought I should add a thread.

Its a 10 year study from the Journal of Dermatological Treatment- SEP 2011. I think this is the longest done so far.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...441.x/abstract

This is a quote from the abstract
"Its efficacy was not reduced as time goes on; in fact, a big proportion of subjects unchanged after 1 year, improved later on, maintaining a positive trend.".

This is completely contrary to what is usually said on forums, that hairloss catches up after a few yrs, and Fin stops working. So this was a suprise.

It also says sides were 6% and some of them went on with treatment because of the great results" which is higher than the 2% initially reported by Merk.


Here is a quote from the last section

"Side effects were observed on 5.9% (7) patients,
but these effectswere not age related (12–14). Some
of the patients who experienced side effects did not
drop out of the treatment because of perceived
good results.

As in a previous study, finasteride 1 mg was generally
well tolerated and long-termtreatment led to
sustained improvement in treated men (7,8).
In conclusion, finasteride is a safe and effective
treatment for controlling male pattern baldness
with long-term daily use even in men over the age
of 40 years. The satisfactory clinical results, the few
side effects observed, and the lack of alternative
medications, led us to consider finasteride an
effective treatment especially if taken in the early
stages of AGA".