Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barber: Very funny. But I guess you haven't read the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. A study out of the Boston University School of Public Health shows that men with bald spots can have more than three times the risk of heart attack as guys with a full head of hair...
...Barber: Ah, but the study also says that only a bald spot on top - so-called vertex baldness - is the problem. If you're losing hair in front or on the sides, you're probably...
...Barber: The researchers don't know. It could be that both are related to a common factor - a high level of the male hormone dihydrotestosterone is one plausible culprit. In any case, an editorial in JAMA says the correlation between baldness and heart disease is statistically sound...
...Barber: The men in the study were all under...
...Barber: O.K., you're short too. You know, of course, that a 1991 study at the Harvard Medical School showed that men under 5 ft. 7 in. have a 60% greater risk of a first heart attack than tall...