Pattern hair loss

Pattern hair loss
Other names: Androgenic alopecia, androgenetic alopecia, male pattern baldness, female androgenic alopecia, female pattern baldness[1]
Male-pattern hair loss shown on the vertex of the scalp
SpecialtyDermatology, plastic surgery
Usual onsetAfter puberty[2]
Risk factorsFamily history[2]
Diagnostic methodBased on symptoms and examination[2]
Differential diagnosisAlopecia areata, anagen effluvium, telogen effluvium, syphilis[2]
TreatmentAcceptance, medications, hair transplant surgery[3]
MedicationMinoxidil, finasteride, dutasteride, spironolactone[3][2]
PrognosisNot serious[2]
FrequencyBy age 50: half (males), 25% (females)[3]

Pattern hair loss, also known as androgenetic alopecia, is a type of hair loss that is gradual in onset and occurs in a characteristic pattern.[2] Onset is after puberty.[2] In males the top and front of the scalp is initially involved.[2] In females it typically presents as thinning of the hair.[3] While it is associated with heart disease and prostate cancer, the condition itself is not serious.[2]

Male pattern hair loss is believed to be due to a combination of genetics and the male hormone dihydrotestosterone.[3] The cause in female pattern hair loss remains unclear.[3] A son, of an affected father, has a five fold increased risk of the condition.[2] Multiple genes are involved.[2] In women the condition is often first noticed one to six months after a significant stressor.[2]

Management may include simply accepting the condition.[3] Otherwise, treatments may include minoxidil, finasteride, dutasteride, or hair transplant surgery.[3] These medications can take six months for an effect.[2] In women spironolactone may also be used.[2] Use of finasteride and dutasteride in women is not well-studied, and it may result in birth defects if taken during pregnancy.[3]

Pattern hair loss by the age of 50 affects about half of males and a quarter of females.[3] Up to 80% of males over the age of 70 may be affected.[2] The condition becomes more common after menopause.[2] White people are more commonly affected than people of color.[2]

Signs and symptoms

Classic male-pattern hair loss begins above the temples and vertex (calvaria) of the scalp. As it progresses, a rim of hair at the sides and rear of the head remains. This has been referred to as a 'Hippocratic wreath', and rarely progresses to complete baldness.[4] Pattern hair loss is classified as a form of non-scarring hair loss.

Female-pattern hair loss more often causes diffuse thinning without hairline recession; similar to its male counterpart, female androgenic alopecia rarely leads to total hair loss.[5] The Ludwig scale grades severity of female-pattern hair loss. These include Grades 1, 2, 3 of balding in women based on their scalp showing in the front due to thinning of hair.

  • Grade 2 hair loss
    Grade 2 hair loss
  • Grade 3 hair loss
    Grade 3 hair loss
  • Grade 4 hair loss
    Grade 4 hair loss

Psychological

Androgenic alopecia is typically experienced as a "moderately stressful condition that diminishes body image satisfaction".[6] However, although most men regard baldness as an unwanted and distressing experience, they usually are able to cope and retain integrity of personality.[7]

Although baldness is not as common in women as in men, the psychological effects of hair loss tend to be much greater. Typically, the frontal hairline is preserved, but the density of hair is decreased on all areas of the scalp. Previously, it was believed to be caused by testosterone just as in male baldness, but most women who lose hair have normal testosterone levels.[8]

Causes

Androgens can interact with the Wnt signalling pathway to cause hair loss
Hair follicle and mesenchymal dermal papilla, labelled at top

KRT37 is the only keratin that is regulated by androgens.[9] This sensitivity to androgens was acquired by Homo sapiens and is not shared with their great ape cousins. Although Winter et al. found that KRT37 is expressed in all the hair follices of chimpanzees, it was not detected in the head hair of modern humans. As androgens are known to grow hair on the body but decrease it on the scalp, this lack of scalp KRT37 may help explain the paradoxical nature of Androgenic alopecia as well as the fact that head hair anagen cycles are extremely long.

Research indicates that the initial programming of pilosebaceous units of hair follicles begins in utero.[10] The physiology is primarily androgenic, with dihydrotestosterone (DHT) being the major contributor at the dermal papillae. Men with premature androgenic alopecia tend to have lower than normal values of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), testosterone, and epitestosterone when compared to men without pattern hair loss.[11] Although hair follicles were previously thought to be permanently gone in areas of complete hair loss, they are more likely dormant, as recent studies have shown the scalp contains the stem cell progenitor cells from which the follicles arose.[12]

Transgenic studies have shown that growth and dormancy of hair follicles are related to the activity of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) at the dermal papillae, which is affected by DHT. Androgens are important in male sexual development around birth and at puberty. They regulate sebaceous glands, apocrine hair growth, and libido. With increasing age, androgens stimulate hair growth on the face, but can suppress it at the temples and scalp vertex, a condition that has been referred to as the 'androgen paradox'.[13]

Men with androgenic alopecia typically have higher 5α-reductase, higher total testosterone, higher unbound/free testosterone, and higher free androgens, including DHT.[14] 5-alpha-reductase converts free testosterone into DHT, and is highest in the scalp and prostate gland. DHT is most commonly formed at the tissue level by 5α-reduction of testosterone.[15] The genetic corollary that codes for this enzyme has been discovered.[16] Prolactin has also been suggested to have different effects on the hair follicle across gender.[17]

Also, crosstalk occurs between androgens and the Wnt-beta-catenin signaling pathway that leads to hair loss. At the level of the somatic stem cell, androgens promote differentiation of facial hair dermal papillae, but inhibit it at the scalp.[13] Other research suggests the enzyme prostaglandin D2 synthase and its product prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) in hair follicles as contributive.[18]

These observations have led to study at the level of the mesenchymal dermal papillae.[19] Types 1 and 2 5α reductase enzymes are present at pilosebaceous units in papillae of individual hair follicles.[20] They catalyze formation of the androgens testosterone and DHT, which in turn regulate hair growth.[13] Androgens have different effects at different follicles: they stimulate IGF-1 at facial hair, leading to growth, but can also stimulate TGF β1, TGF β2, dickkopf1, and IL-6 at the scalp, leading to catagenic miniaturization.[13] Hair follicles in anaphase express four different caspases. Significant levels of inflammatory infiltrate have been found in transitional hair follicles.[21] Interleukin 1 is suspected to be a cytokine mediator that promotes hair loss.[22]

The fact that hair loss is cumulative with age while androgen levels fall as well as the fact that finasteride does not reverse advanced stages of androgenetic alopecia remains a mystery but some possible explanations have been put forward: Higher conversion of testosterone to DHT locally with age as higher levels of 5-alpha reductase are noted in balding scalp, and higher levels of DNA damage in the dermal papilla as well as senescence of the dermal papilla due to androgen receptor activation and environmental stress.[23] The mechanism by which the androgen receptor triggers dermal papilla permanent senescence is not known but may involve IL6, TGFB-1 and oxidative stress. Senescence of the dermal papilla is measured by lack of mobility, different size and shape, lower replication and altered output of molecules and different expression of markers. The dermal papilla is the primary location of androgen action and its migration towards the hair bulge and subsequent signaling and size increase are required to maintain the hair follicle so senescence via the androgen receptor explains much of the physiology.

Diagnosis

The diagnosis of androgenic alopecia can be usually established based on clinical presentation in men. In women, the diagnosis usually requires more complex diagnostic evaluation. Further evaluation of the differential requires exclusion of other causes of hair loss, and assessing for the typical progressive hair loss pattern of androgenic alopecia.[24] Trichoscopy can be used for further evaluation.[25] Biopsy may be needed to exclude other causes of hair loss,[26] and histology would demonstrate perifollicular fibrosis.[27][28] The Hamilton–Norwood scale has been developed to grade androgenic alopecia in males by severity.

Treatment

Main article: Management of hair loss

Medications

Androgen-dependent

Finasteride is a medication of the 5α-reductase inhibitors (5-ARIs) class.[29] By inhibiting type II 5-AR, finasteride prevents the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone in various tissues including the scalp.[29][30] Increased hair on the scalp can be seen within three months of starting finasteride treatment and longer-term studies have demonstrated increased hair on the scalp at 24 and 48 months with continued use.[30] Treatment with finasteride more effectively treats male-pattern hair loss at the vertex than male-pattern hair loss at the front of the head and temples.[30]

Dutasteride is a medication in the same class as finasteride but inhibits both type I and type II 5-alpha reductase.[30] Dutasteride is approved for the treatment of male-pattern hair loss in Korea and Japan, but not in the United States.[30] However, it is commonly used off-label to treat male-pattern hair loss.[30]

Androgen-independent

Minoxidil dilates small blood vessels; it is not clear how this causes hair to grow.[31] Other treatments include tretinoin combined with minoxidil, ketoconazole shampoo, dermarolling (Collagen induction therapy) spironolactone,[32] alfatradiol, and topilutamide (fluridil).[33]

There is evidence supporting the use of minoxidil as a safe and effective treatment for female pattern hair loss, and there is no significant difference in efficacy between 2% and 5% formulations.[34] Finasteride was shown to be no more effective than placebo based on low-quality studies.[34] The effectiveness of laser-based therapies is unclear.[34]

Procedures

More advanced cases may be resistant or unresponsive to medical therapy and require hair transplantation. Naturally occurring units of one to four hairs, called follicular units, are excised and moved to areas of hair restoration.[32] These follicular units are surgically implanted in the scalp in close proximity and in large numbers. The grafts are obtained from either follicular unit transplantation (FUT) or follicular unit extraction (FUE). In the former, a strip of skin with follicular units is extracted and dissected into individual follicular unit grafts, and in the latter individual hairs are extracted manually or robotically. The surgeon then implants the grafts into small incisions, called recipient sites.[35][36] Cosmetic scalp tattoos can also mimic the appearance of a short, buzzed haircut.

Alternative therapies

Many people use unproven treatments.[37] Regarding female pattern alopecia, there is no evidence for vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements.[38] As of 2008, there is little evidence to support the use of lasers to treat male-pattern hair loss.[39] The same applies to special lights.[38] Dietary supplements are not typically recommended.[39] A 2015 review found a growing number of papers in which plant extracts were studied but only one randomized controlled clinical trial, namely a study in 10 people of saw palmetto extract.[40][41]

Epidemiology

Female androgenic alopecia has become a growing problem that, according to the American Academy of Dermatology, affects around 30 million women in the United States. Although hair loss in females normally occurs after the age of 50 or even later when it does not follow events like pregnancy, chronic illness, crash diets, and stress among others, it is now occurring at earlier ages with reported cases in women as young as 15 or 16.[42]

Society and culture

Studies have been inconsistent across cultures regarding how balding men rate on the attraction scale. While a 2001 South Korean study showed that most people rated balding men as less attractive,[43] a 2002 survey of Welsh women found that they rated bald and gray-haired men quite desirable.[44] One of the proposed social theories for male pattern hair loss is that men who embraced complete baldness by shaving their heads subsequently signaled dominance, high social status, and/or longevity.[45]

Myths

An ancient phenomenon:
Greek philosophers with and without much hair (from left to right: Socrates, Antisthenes, Chrysippus, and Epicurus, fifth to third centuries BC)

Many myths exist regarding the possible causes of baldness and its relationship with one's virility, intelligence, ethnicity, job, social class, wealth, and many other characteristics.

Physical activity

Because it increases testosterone levels, many Internet forums have put forward the idea that weight training and other forms of exercise increase hair loss in predisposed individuals. Although scientific studies do support a correlation between exercise and testosterone, no direct study has found a link between exercise and baldness. However, a few have found a relationship between a sedentary life and baldness, suggesting some exercise is beneficial. The type or quantity of exercise may influence hair loss.[46][47] Testosterone levels are not a good marker of baldness, and many studies actually show paradoxical low testosterone in balding persons, although research on the implications is limited.

Emotional stress

Emotional stress has been shown to accelerate baldness in genetically susceptible individuals.[48] Stress due to sleep deprivation in military recruits lowered testosterone levels, but is not noted to have affected SHBG.[49] Thus, stress due to sleep deprivation in fit males is unlikely to elevate DHT, which is one cause of male pattern baldness. Whether sleep deprivation can cause hair loss by some other mechanism is not clear.

Sexually activity

Levels of free testosterone are strongly linked to libido and DHT levels, but unless free testosterone is virtually nonexistent, levels have not been shown to affect virility. Men with androgenic alopecia are more likely to have a higher baseline of free androgens. However, sexual activity is multifactoral, and androgenic profile is not the only determining factor in baldness. Additionally, because hair loss is progressive and free testosterone declines with age, a male's hairline may be more indicative of his past than his present disposition.[50][51]

Many misconceptions exist about what can help prevent hair loss, one of these being that lack of sex will prevent hair loss. While a correlation exists between increased frequency of ejaculation and increased levels of DHT, the study suggests that ejaculation frequency may be a sign, rather than a cause, of higher DHT levels.[52] Another study shows that although sexual arousal and masturbation-induced orgasm increase testosterone concentration around orgasm, they reduce testosterone concentration on average, and because about 5% of testosterone is converted to DHT, ejaculation does not elevate DHT levels.[53]

The only published study to test correlation between ejaculation frequency and baldness was probably large enough to detect an association (1390 subjects) and found no correlation, although persons with only vertex androgenetic alopecia had fewer female sexual partners than those of other androgenetic alopecia categories (such as frontal or both frontal and vertex). One study may not be enough, especially in baldness, where there is a complex with age.[54]

Names

Male pattern hair loss is also known as androgenic alopecia, androgenetic alopecia (AGA), alopecia androgenetica, and male pattern baldness (MPB).

Other animals

Animal models of androgenic alopecia occur naturally and have been developed in transgenic mice;[55] chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes); bald uakaris (Cacajao rubicundus); and stump-tailed macaques (Macaca speciosa and M. arctoides). Of these, macaques have demonstrated the greatest incidence and most prominent degrees of hair loss.[56][57]

Baldness is not a trait unique to human beings. One possible case study is about a maneless male lion in the Tsavo area. The Tsavo lion prides are unique in that they frequently have only a single male lion with usually seven or eight adult females, as opposed to four females in other lion prides. Male lions may have heightened levels of testosterone, which could explain their reputation for aggression and dominance, indicating that lack of mane may at one time have had an alpha correlation.[58]

Although primates do not go bald, their hairlines do undergo recession. In infancy the hairline starts at the top of the supraorbital ridge, but slowly recedes after puberty to create the appearance of a small forehead.

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