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  2. Androgenic Alopecia In Women - Mayo Clinic Press

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    What is androgenic alopecia? There are many different types of hair loss, but the most common for women is female pattern hair loss. Known as androgenic alopecia, the condition may run in families because genetics are believed to play a role.

  3. Androgenetic alopecia - MedlinePlus

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    Androgenetic alopecia is a common form of hair loss in both men and women. In men, it is also known as male pattern baldness, and in women, it is also known as female pattern hair loss. In men, hair is lost in a well-defined pattern, beginning above both temples.

  4. Male Pattern Baldness (Androgenic Alopecia) - Cleveland Clinic

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    Male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia) is a type of hair loss that affects people assigned male at birth (AMAB). It causes you to lose hair on the skin covering your head (scalp), and your hair doesn’t grow back.

  5. Androgenetic Alopecia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

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    Identify the clinical manifestations and patterns of androgenetic alopecia in patients of different genders and ages. Screen for cardiovascular risk factors, hormonal imbalances, and other potential comorbidities associated with androgenetic alopecia.

  6. Androgenetic alopecia, also known as pattern hair loss, is a genetically determined, patterned, progressive loss of hair from the scalp. Men present with hair thinning in the temporal areas (producing a characteristic M shape) that advances to the crown (vertex) area as the alopecia progresses.

  7. Pattern hair loss - Wikipedia

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    Pattern hair loss (also known as androgenetic alopecia (AGA) [1]) is a hair loss condition that primarily affects the top and front of the scalp. [2][3] In male-pattern hair loss (MPHL), the hair loss typically presents itself as either a receding front hairline, loss of hair on the crown and vertex of the scalp, or a combination of both.

  8. Androgenetic Alopecia and Hair Loss: What You Need to Know

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    Androgenetic alopecia is also called male pattern hair loss (MPHL) or female pattern hair loss (FPHL). This article explains what androgenetic alopecia is, what it looks like, its causes, risks, and treatments.

  9. Male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia, balding) - DermNet

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    Male pattern hair loss is also called androgenetic alopecia. It is characterised by a receding hairline and hair loss on the top and front of the head. A similar type of hair loss in women, female pattern hair loss, results in thinning hair on the mid-frontal area of the scalp and is generally less severe than occurs in males. Pattern balding.

  10. Patient education: Androgenetic alopecia in men and women ...

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    In men with androgenetic alopecia, hormones related to testosterone (also called androgens) cause hair follicles to have a shorter-than-normal growth phase, resulting in hair shafts that are abnormally short and thin. These follicles are said to be "miniaturized."

  11. Hair loss - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

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    The most common cause of hair loss is a hereditary condition that happens with aging. This condition is called androgenic alopecia, male-pattern baldness and female-pattern baldness. It usually occurs gradually and in predictable patterns — a receding hairline and bald spots in men and thinning hair along the crown of the scalp in women.