Oral minoxidil 7.5 mg for hair loss increases heart rate with no change in blood pressure in 24 h Holter and 24 h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Affiliations

¹ Dermatology Outpatient Clinic, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
² Department of Dermatologics, Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.
³ Department of Infectology, Dermatology, Imaging Diagnosis and Radiotherapy, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Infectology, Dermatology, Imaging Diagnosis and Radiotherapy, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: dermato.paulo@gmail.com.

Case Reports

Baltazar Dias Sanabria et al. An Bras Dermatol. 2024 Sep-Oct.

. 2024 Sep-Oct;99(5):734-736.

doi: 10.1016/j.abd.2023.08.016. Epub 2024 May 20.

¹ Dermatology Outpatient Clinic, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
² Department of Dermatologics, Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil.
³ Department of Infectology, Dermatology, Imaging Diagnosis and Radiotherapy, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Infectology, Dermatology, Imaging Diagnosis and Radiotherapy, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: dermato.paulo@gmail.com.

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