The authors suggested the findings could open the door for future prevention and treatment of hair thinning.
They concluded: “These data collectively demonstrate that stem cell inflammatory signals induced by obesity robustly represses organ regeneration signals to accelerate the miniaturisation of mini-organs, and suggests the importance of daily prevention of organ dysfunction.”
The most common form of hair loss – known as inherited androgenetic alopecia – is a major issue among both men and women in the UK.
The average person’s scalp contains more than 150,000 hairs, each at one of three phases – the growing phase (anagen), the static phase (catagen) or the shedding phase (telogen).