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2. The Most Up-To-Date Guide To Women's Hair Loss You'll Read - AOL

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   Also known as androgenetic alopecia, female pattern hair loss (FPHL) will affect 40 percent of women by age 50, according to Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. This chronic and slow ...

3. Hair Loss in Women: Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Alopecia areata, on the other hand, is caused by an autoimmune disease. It happens when your immune system mistakenly attacks hair follicles. Stress is the main driver of telogen effluvium.

4. 5 Things to Avoid When You Have Alopecia Areata - AOL

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   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also recently approved Olumiant, a new treatment for severe alopecia areata. This medication is a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor that works by blocking the ...

5. Alopecia areata - Wikipedia

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   In alopecia areata, a hair follicle is attacked by the immune system. T-cells swarm the roots, killing the follicle. This causes the hair to fall out and parts of the head to become bald. Alopecia areata is thought to be a systemic autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own anagen hair follicles and suppresses or stops hair growth. [22]

6. Management of hair loss - Wikipedia

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   Androgenic alopecia also occurs in women, and more often presents as diffuse thinning without hairline recession. Like its male counterpart, the condition rarely leads to total hair loss. Treatment options are similar to those for men, although topical or systemic estrogen is used more often. [81] [84]

7. Non scarring hair loss - Wikipedia

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   Causes of noncicatricial alopecia can be separated based on focal or diffuse hair loss: [3] Diffuse: Androgenetic alopecia: androgenic DHT leads to catagenic miniaturization of hair follicles. [4] Diffuse alopecia areata: diffuse autoimmune destruction of hair follicles [5] Alopecia totalis: unknown but thought to be autoimmune [6]