Androgenetic alopecia in women

The impact of hair loss on any person is always great. In the case of women, the psychological impact of losing something as symbolically feminine as hair is really strong.

Indeed, every day we see bald men, with receding hairline, with hollows in the chaplet. Despite the impact it may have on each of them, it seems quite normal to the rest of us and we are used to it. But if we think about women, things change and we find it hard to think that a woman can suffer from baldness. Although it may seem strange, in recent years, more and more women are coming to hair clinics because they have problems with baldness. hair loss.

The most common causes of hair loss are usually due to androgenetic or deficiency causes. If we are facing a hair loss where the main cause is deficiency, we see a diffuse thinning of hair throughout the scalp. If the hair loss is androgenetic we will observe that there is little hair density on the top of the head but a lot on the back and sides.

Female androgenetic alopecia occurs when the pilosebaceous follicles susceptible to androgenic derivatives begin a process of miniaturization with a slow evolution that causes the hair to thin, leaving clear patches in the affected area. Although it has the same origin as male alopecia, it is believed that different hormones and enzymes are involved, which is why it is called female pattern alopecia.

According to studies, the percentage of women suffering from alopecia is growing every year, with the difference with men becoming smaller and smaller. In fact, there is already a standard scale for measuring alopecia in women: the Ludwig scale.

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