{"id":162,"date":"2023-03-15T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/en\/?p=162"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:54:59","slug":"androgenetic-alopecia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/androgenetic-alopecia\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDROGENETIC ALOPECIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is androgenetic alopecia?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hair loss has a wide variety of reasons.\u00a0<strong>Androgenetic alopecia<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(AGA)<\/strong>; is a frequent form of hair loss observed in male and female individuals due to androgen hormones and genetic effects. It is observed in nearly half of men and about 20-25% of women. In women, the frequency of this disease especially increases in post-menopause period. It can only be determined by a dermatologist examination whether it is a male pattern hair loss or not. It is a problem which impairs the quality of life and causes psychological problems especially in women.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How is Androgenetic Alopecia (Male Pattern Hair Loss) observed?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Androgenetic Alopecia displays different clinical features in men and women. Forehead-scalp line moves back on forehead and vertex area in men. In women, forehead-scalp line does not move back but a partial hair loss occurs on vertex area. In Androgenetic Alopecia, terminal hairs gradually turn to vellus hairs.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How should Androgenetic Alopecia (Male Pattern Hair Loss) Treatment be?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Despite the fact that the ideal treatment in\u00a0Androgenetic Alopecia\u00a0<\/strong>is to stop the miniaturization process and to regain and recover the lost hair; the most realistic purpose of treatment among the available treatment alternatives that can be recommended to the patients is to decrease the hair loss rate rather than regaining\/recovering the lost hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biotin, Vitamin B12, zinc, iron level, thyroid function tests, hormonal tests should definitely be done. Despite male pattern hair loss, the deficiency should be compensated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most significant point in treatment is continuity. Since genetic factors are efficient, regular and continuous treatments are required rather than treatments for 3 or 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>Hair lotions, oral antiandrogen, hormone-blocking drugs, PRP and mesotherapy may be applied in treatment. The treatment is personal and the requirements of each individual are different.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is androgenetic alopecia? Hair loss has a wide variety of reasons.\u00a0Androgenetic alopecia\u00a0(AGA); is a frequent form of hair loss observed in male and female individuals due to androgen hormones and genetic effects. It is observed in nearly half of men and about 20-25% of women. In women, the frequency of this disease especially increases [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dermatological-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahubirol.com\/web\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}