What is Alopecia?

What is Alopecia?

• Alopecia: Various types of hair loss or balding.
• Alopecia: baldness; absence of hair from skin areas where it is normally present.
  Source - Diseases Database
• Alopecia: loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer).
  Source - WordNet 2.1

Alopecia: Introduction

Types of Alopecia:

Types of Alopecia:

• Alopecia Areata - an autoimmune type of alopecia
• Alopecia Totalis
• more types...»

Broader types of Alopecia:

• Hair conditions
• more types...»

How serious is Alopecia?

Complications of Alopecia: see complications of Alopecia

What causes Alopecia?

Causes of Alopecia: see causes of Alopecia

What are the symptoms of Alopecia?

Symptoms of Alopecia: see symptoms of Alopecia

Complications of Alopecia: see complications of Alopecia

Can anyone else get Alopecia?

Inheritance: see inheritance of Alopecia

Alopecia: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Alopecia.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Alopecia.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Alopecia: see treatments for Alopecia
Research for Alopecia: see research for Alopecia

Society issues for Alopecia

Hospitalization statistics for Alopecia: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Alopecia:

• 0.0004% (54) of hospital consultant episodes were for alopecia areata in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 98% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 31% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• 69% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
• more statistics...»

Organs Affected by Alopecia:

Organs and body systems related to Alopecia include:

• Hair

Name and Aliases of Alopecia

Main name of condition: Alopecia

Atrichia, Bald, Balding, Baldness, Hair loss, Hypotrichosis Source - Diseases Database

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Alopecia:

• Alopecias
• Bald
• Baldness
• Calvities
• Falling hair
• HAIR LOSS
• Hair loss disorder
• Hair thinning
• Loss (of) hair
• Loss hair
• Loss of hair (finding)
• Thinning hair
• Thinning of hair

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