The stigma of having alopecia causes more depression and anxiety than the disease itself, new research has found.

Children of various racial and ethnic minority groups have a higher prevalence of alopecia areata than non-Hispanic White children.

Patients share what they wish they had known before getting a diagnosis of alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss.

Armani Latimer tells PEOPLE she had 'no' hesitation 'whatsoever' to opening up about her alopecia on Netflix's 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' season 2.