men already knew that having several bats in their family boded ill for the sustainability of their abundant hair. However, we did not know he was the same for palmar hyperhidrosis, which is to say for sweaty palms. That at least is what Samuel Ahn, director of Endovascular Surgery Medical Center University of California, Los Angeles.
The strong hereditary component shows that hyperhidrosis may be caused by a dominant gene. And it does not appear related gender, or ethnicity. Samuel Ahn studied Fifty-eight patients with very wet hands and the medical records of their parents. And he discovered that two thirds of "sick" had a family history.
is the first time a scientific study establishes a genetic link for this problem that still affects about 1% of the Western population.
next for Dr. Ahn: identify those genes to consider treatment against sweaty hands.
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