While similarities exist between types of alopecia, distinct clinical characteristics help patients & physicians ...

Women with hereditary thinning usually first ... cases there is loss of all scalp and body hair (alopecia areata universalis). Alopecia areata occurs equally in males and females, at all ages ...

"In rare cases, they may lose all their body hair, too, known as alopecia universalis ... "People, particularly young, imageconscious women like Gail Porter, can be extremely anxious about ...

or alopecia universalis (loss of all body hair). 2. Androgenetic alopecia: This is the most common form of hair loss, affecting both men and women. Often referred to as male-pattern baldness or ...

Women are weaned on the idea that in order ... (patchy hair loss), alopecia totalis (whole scalp of hair lost) and alopecia universalis (all hair on the body lost). Alopecia areata is an ...

Female pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia, is hair loss that affects people assigned female at birth. It’s similar to male pattern baldness, except that women may lose hair in ...

Facing hair loss and alopecia can be stressful and isolating to experience, but thousands of women are finding solidarity and camaraderie in online support groups and forums. So when it started ...

She was diagnosed with alopecia universalis, a disease that causes total hair loss, when she was 3 years old. "She went through a tough 2 years after getting diagnosed with alopecia," reads a ...