Article: FOCUS@HEALTH: Baldness or hair loss traceable to heredity

Chua, Philip S.
Filipino Reporter
08-03-2000
FOCUS@HEALTH: Baldness or hair loss traceable to heredity

WE will focus on baldness for this week's column. How common is baldness?

Baldness affects approximately 40 million men and 20 million women in the
United States. We could not find statistics for the Philippines.
Male-pattern baldness is recession of the hairline from the forehead
upwards and back, thinning or fallout from the crown of the head, leaving a
horse-shaped hair mass around the sides and back of the head.
Female-pattern baldness is a diffuse hair loss throughout the scalp. Even
Julius Caesar, according to legend, used the ceremonial wreath of laurel
leaves as a crown to hide his ...

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