Submited on: 16 Feb 2013 10:18:07 AM GMT
Published on: 16 Feb 2013 12:48:44 PM GMT

This manuscript describes a case control study to determine the correlation between serum ferritin levels and chronic telogen.  Despite the work is potentially interesting and the phagocytic activation is of great clinical relevance, some point need attention...

1. The abbreviations should be marked in abstract.

2. Although the authors major studies the correlation between serum ferritin levels and chronic telogen, I know hair loss related to many factors,such as age, hormone. So the authors should mentioned in the discussion.

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I didn't find correlation...
Posted by Prof. Sergey A Shukolyukov on 19 Mar 2013 11:55:34 AM GMT

On my opinion the quality of this paper is low. I didn’t find out the convincing arguments in favour of correlation between SFL and CTE. Decreased SFL in 15 out of 40 patience and ONLY 7 out of 40 controls can not be an argument because it might be an accidental coincidence due to small samples. In order to make such conclusion authors must operate with vast (no less 100 persons) selection.

It is known well that  alopecia is related to various factors (including hidden deseases), such as  age, treatment with some drugs, heredity, vitamin and mineral deficience, hormonal status and etc. I think authors should discuss these topics.

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