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Article: Hair loss in women.(Hair Update)
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- Dermatology Nursing
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Each year, women spend countless hours and dollars on their hair. It can play a major role in a woman's self-confidence and self esteem, making female pattern hair loss a potentially debilitating condition, socially and emotionally. But it doesn't have to be. Speaking at the American Academy of Dermatology's Derm Update 2004 media briefing, Valerie Callender, MD, clinical assistant professor of dermatology, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, discussed female pattern hair loss, a condition that affects approximately 30 million women in the United States.
Female pattern hair loss can occur in women as early as age 20 and it affects all races and ...