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Objective:To investigate the risk factors on androgenetic alopecia (AGA) of primary healthcare staffs.Methods:Primary healthcare staffs were investigated by a questionnaire.Results:A total of 934 healthcare staffs (550 males and 384 females) were surveyed, of which 238 cases were diagnosed as AGA. 68.8% of AGA patients had poor mental health self-assessment; 52.94% of AGA patients had a family history; the prevalence in the people who usually had the night shift was 26.03%, which was higher than that in the people who had no night shift.Conclusions:The prevalence of AGA in healthcare staffs is higher than the national average, which might be related to working pressure, mental status, night shifts, genetic and alcohol drinking.
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Objective:To study the clinical efficacy of nanocrystalline needles combined with 5% minoxidil tincture in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia of male.Methods:A total of 60 patients with androgenetic alopecia were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, with 30 patients in each group. The control group was treated with 5% minoxidil tincture 2 times a day. On the basis of the control group, the treatment group was treated with nanocrystalline needles combined with 5% minoxidil tincture for 10 minutes 2 times a week. The clinical effects of different treatments were compared after six months.Results:There was a significant difference in overall response rate between the treatment group and the control group (80.00% vs. 53.30%, P<0.05). The improvement of the each clinical features of image by dermoscopy in patients with hair loss disease included more than 20% of hair diameter diminish, vellus hair increased, partly acomia and yellow dot sign had a significant difference between the treatment group and the control group ( P<0.05). Conclusion:Nanocrystalline needles combined with 5% minoxidil tincture has a good clinical effect in the treatment of androgenetic alopecia.
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Objective To investigate the effects of low dose of extracellular histone on endothelial cells in infectious diseases such as sepsis. Methods The endothelial cells were treated with 10 μg/mL recombinant human histone H3/H4 complex in replacement of calf thymus histones (CTH) for various periods of time, and the morphology changes and the viability of the endothelial cells were recorded. In addition, flow cytometry was applied to identify the characteristics of endothelial cells and enzyme-linked immunosorbnent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the extracellular histones level in endothelial cells culture. Results The low dose of CTH could continuously induce endothelial cells death, cell morphological changes and function loss, which was reproduced by 10 μg/mL recombinant histone H3/H4 complex. Results of histones quantitation showed that histone can cause a series of intracellular reactions in a short period of time. Conclusions It is showed that 10 μg/mL H3/H4 can induce the toxicity in infectious disease and this level of the dose is a lower than those used in previous studies and more close to the pathological conditions.