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How is it diagnosed?

- To carry out a proper diagnosis and successful androgenetic alopecia, it is essential that your doctor perform a proper examination of the possible personal and family history.

- You should also take into account the possibility that androgenetic alopecia associated with other disorders appears capillaries.

- There may be other forms of alopecia, which appear alongside androgenetic alopecia.

- Other types of alopecia that may raise confusion with androgenetic alopecia are telogen effluvium, anagen effluvium, traction alopecia, loose anagen syndrome, drug-induced alopecia, alopecia areata diffuse, and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the cause and how is it produced?

In androgenetic alopecia, the fundamental phenomenon, both in men as in women, is the progressive miniaturization of hair follicles in certain areas of the scalp, just transforming from terminal hair (scalp hair itself from the 3 – 4 months old, resulting from the transformation of body hair after the effect of androgens) to hair, and finally disappears.

This is a spontaneous and irreversible and that usually starts from adolescence due to increased numbers and activity of androgens. Several androgens may act on the follicle with a different activity level, the most active hormone dihydrotestosterone.

Areas sensitive to the activity of androgens are above the middle of the forehead and crown in man, and all the upper and central head at the woman as the degree of sensitivity and therefore the tendency to develop androgenetic alopecia, given by a heritage that is passed from parent to child with a variable intensity (the famous family tradition). Read the rest of this entry »

What is it?

Androgenetic alopecia, also known as common baldness in men and women for hereditary loss is a common trait from the genetic standpoint, produced by androgens in men and women sensitive to them. It is the most common cause of hair loss in both men and women.

It begins in adolescence or early adulthood in both sexes and is often expressed around the entire 40 years of age. Read the rest of this entry »