Research Article

Effectiveness and Safety of Botulinum Toxin Type A in the Treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics.

BTA ()BTA+FNS () value

Age (years)0.571
BMI (kg/m2)0.463
Age hair loss first noticed (years)0.386
Disease duration (years)0.596
Norwood-Hamilton grade, (%)
 II vertex9 (30.0)7 (21.2)
 III13 (43.3)15 (45.4)
 IV8 (26.7)11 (33.3)0.696
Hair counts before treatment (root/cm2)0.715

BTA: botulinum toxin type A; BTA+FNS: botulinum toxin type A+finasteride.