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Article: Women and hair loss
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- Dermatology Times
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- August 1, 2003
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Hair density and frontal recession not linked
Barcelona - The next time one of your female patients worries that her thinning hair will lead to baldness, you can reassure her that, most likely, it does not mean she is going bald. The same goes for women who are experiencing recession near her temples, a less common variety of hair loss.
"Hair density might change, but the fact that a woman is receding has no bearing on whether she's going to have hair loss elsewhere on her scalp," Andrew G. Messenger, M.D., department of dermatology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, said here at the 10th European Hair Research Society Meeting.
While hair loss is relatively uncommon in women, when it ...