Asim Shahmalak
He is a frequent media spokesman, and has written about the importance placed in hair over the centuries and the fact that baldness until recently was not recognised as a social or medical issue, despite the sometimes catastrophic impact it can have on confidence and mental well-being. He wrote: "Male pattern baldness (MPB), the main cause of hair loss, affects an estimated quarter of men by the age of 30 and two thirds by the age of 60. Until recently, the impact baldness might have on confidence and well-being was little understood or recognised by the medical profession at large."
Diabetes mellitus and deafness
MIDD represents 1% of people who have diabetes. Over 85% of people that carry the mutation in mitochondrial DNA at position 3243 present symptoms of diabetes. The average age at which people who have MIDD are typically diagnosed is 37 years old but has been seen to range anywhere between 11 years to 68 years old. Of these people with diabetes carrying the mitochondrial DNA mutation at position 3243, 75% experience sensorineural hearing loss. In these cases, hearing loss normally appears before the onset of diabetes and is marked by a decrease in perception of high tone frequencies. The associated hearing loss with diabetes is typically more common and more quickly declining in men than in women.