Hair Loss in Men and Women : The most common form of hair loss is a condition called androgenetic alopecia. This type of hair loss can affect both men and women.
Normal Hair cycle
The reason for hair loss is the most debated topic around the world for many decades.
Causes of Baldness:
Androg genetic Alopecia is commonly known as Male Patterned Baldness. The 3 main reasons for baldness are heredity, hormones and time.
Heredity:
Genes play an important role in the establishment of baldness. A person must have the inherited tendency to go bald early and hormones play a vital role. Normal hair fall per day is 50 to 100
Approximately 150 genes influence the character of baldness. So, the pattern of inheritance may vary. For ex: Within the same family, even though the parents are bald, the children may never go bald but the grand children may be affected.
MALE PATTERN BALDNESS or ANDROGENETIC ALOPESIA is a gradual balding of the scalp which occurs commonly in men, occasionly in women also. The gradual transformation of terminal hair follicles to smaller vellous ones with a much shorter growth period occurs in well defined patterns and is believed to require both ANDROGENS and GENETIC tendency.
No permanent treatment is currently available for Androgenic alopesia except for corrective hair transplants.
It is non scarring alopesia and results from genetically determined end organ sensitivity to Androgens.
Change in the Terminal to Velous hair ratio from 6:1-8:1 to 4:1 or less will be seen.
There is interaction of several Genes with Environmental factors. Usually 25% of men aged 25-30 yrs, 50% of men aged 50 yrs are affected by MPB.
HEREDITY—Inheritance may be MATERNAL, PATERNAL or both, but the penetrance of genes may vary.
So it is POLYGENIC inheritance with VARIABLE PENETRANCE.
Genetically no definite treatment is available till now.
HAIR LOSS INDEX ,PROFILE AND SEVERITY SCALE.
It was specially designed to describe an individual patients hair distribution and density. PROFILE is a graphic display of the loss in each 10 zones. INDEX is score for the cumulative loss in all 10 zones.
Surface map is a 3 view graphic scalp with 10 zones that corresponds to sequence of MPHL[NORWOOD].
Hair loss severity is visual ratio of hair to skin. It has 6 categories.
Read More : Hair Loss in Men and Women
Normal Hair cycle
The reason for hair loss is the most debated topic around the world for many decades.
Causes of Baldness:
Androg genetic Alopecia is commonly known as Male Patterned Baldness. The 3 main reasons for baldness are heredity, hormones and time.
Heredity:
Genes play an important role in the establishment of baldness. A person must have the inherited tendency to go bald early and hormones play a vital role. Normal hair fall per day is 50 to 100
Approximately 150 genes influence the character of baldness. So, the pattern of inheritance may vary. For ex: Within the same family, even though the parents are bald, the children may never go bald but the grand children may be affected.
MALE PATTERN BALDNESS or ANDROGENETIC ALOPESIA is a gradual balding of the scalp which occurs commonly in men, occasionly in women also. The gradual transformation of terminal hair follicles to smaller vellous ones with a much shorter growth period occurs in well defined patterns and is believed to require both ANDROGENS and GENETIC tendency.
No permanent treatment is currently available for Androgenic alopesia except for corrective hair transplants.
It is non scarring alopesia and results from genetically determined end organ sensitivity to Androgens.
Change in the Terminal to Velous hair ratio from 6:1-8:1 to 4:1 or less will be seen.
There is interaction of several Genes with Environmental factors. Usually 25% of men aged 25-30 yrs, 50% of men aged 50 yrs are affected by MPB.
HEREDITY—Inheritance may be MATERNAL, PATERNAL or both, but the penetrance of genes may vary.
So it is POLYGENIC inheritance with VARIABLE PENETRANCE.
Genetically no definite treatment is available till now.
HAIR LOSS INDEX ,PROFILE AND SEVERITY SCALE.
It was specially designed to describe an individual patients hair distribution and density. PROFILE is a graphic display of the loss in each 10 zones. INDEX is score for the cumulative loss in all 10 zones.
Surface map is a 3 view graphic scalp with 10 zones that corresponds to sequence of MPHL[NORWOOD].
Hair loss severity is visual ratio of hair to skin. It has 6 categories.
Read More : Hair Loss in Men and Women
