temporary hair loss

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types of baldness

  • Alopecia areata
    In baldness

    …destruction of hair follicles, and temporary hair loss, arising from transitory damage to the follicles. The first category is dominated by male pattern baldness (androgenetic alopecia). By age 50, some 30 to 50 of men have been affected by male pattern baldness, which progresses gradually, beginning with a characteristic recession…

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