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13.06.2008, 13:42

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Psychological features of androgenetic alopecia

Objective
To evaluate the psychological features of subjects with male (MAGA) and female androgenetic alopecia (FAGA).

Methods
We performed a retrospective study of 100 patients with FAGA and the same number of patients with MAGA based on the features registered in the personal history of individuals who attended our Trichology Unit (Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain) from January 1993 to January 1995.

Results
Depression was more frequent in FAGA than in MAGA (55:3), but anxiety (78:41) and aggressiveness or hostility were more frequent in MAGA than in FAGA (22:3), and three men were considered anxious and depressive. Treatment resulted in improvement in 89% of FAGA and 76% of MAGA, and the subjects continued attending with periodic check-ups. There were requests for surgical treatment by 3% of FAGA and 12% of MAGA, and 6% of FAGA and 12% of MAGA did not return for follow-up consultation. All of the MAGA showed aggressiveness and lack of willingness to follow the correct treatment.

Conclusions
In general, AGA patients tend to have elusive personalities and, although the individuals may go to the trichology centre accompanied they preferred to present alone to the desk or at least to the trichological examination room, except for subjects with depression who would often not agree to the physician removing hairs for the trichogram. Most subjects accepted the prescribed medical or surgical treatment, but several phoned before the second treatment session because the results of the first session were not as good as they had expected. The drop-out rate was higher in men (1 in 2), who were probably subjects showing aggressiveness.

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13.06.2008, 15:47

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Psychological features of androgenetic alopecia
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Yeah, that's right. Let's blame some of the mens' continued problems on "aggressiveness" and not accepting their "treatment."

The researchers' conclusions fail to acknowlede that lots of men find the current AGA treatments to be pitifully ineffective, full of bad medical and cosmetic side effects, and generally worse than the original condition.

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HairSite Admin 13.06.2008, 13:42	Psychological features of androgenetic alopecia (Support & General Discussions) Post reply
	Psychological features of androgenetic alopecia Objective To evaluate the psychological features of subjects with male (MAGA) and female androgenetic alopecia (FAGA). Methods We performed a retrospective study of 100 patients with FAGA and the same number of patients with MAGA based on the features registered in the personal history of individuals who attended our Trichology Unit (Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain) from January 1993 to January 1995. Results Depression was more frequent in FAGA than in MAGA (55:3), but anxiety (78:41) and aggressiveness or hostility were more frequent in MAGA than in FAGA (22:3), and three men were considered anxious and depressive. Treatment resulted in improvement in 89% of FAGA and 76% of MAGA, and the subjects continued attending with periodic check-ups. There were requests for surgical treatment by 3% of FAGA and 12% of MAGA, and 6% of FAGA and 12% of MAGA did not return for follow-up consultation. All of the MAGA showed aggressiveness and lack of willingness to follow the correct treatment. Conclusions In general, AGA patients tend to have elusive personalities and, although the individuals may go to the trichology centre accompanied they preferred to present alone to the desk or at least to the trichological examination room, except for subjects with depression who would often not agree to the physician removing hairs for the trichogram. Most subjects accepted the prescribed medical or surgical treatment, but several phoned before the second treatment session because the results of the first session were not as good as they had expected. The drop-out rate was higher in men (1 in 2), who were probably subjects showing aggressiveness. HairSite Admin is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO --- I offer research assistance for HairSite. email: hairsite@aol.com for free consultations ===================================== reminder: 1. Help China Earthquake Victims 2. Free hair replacement system for men & women
cal 13.06.2008, 15:47 @ HairSite Admin	Psychological features of androgenetic alopecia Post reply
	Yeah, that's right. Let's blame some of the mens' continued problems on "aggressiveness" and not accepting their "treatment." The researchers' conclusions fail to acknowlede that lots of men find the current AGA treatments to be pitifully ineffective, full of bad medical and cosmetic side effects, and generally worse than the original condition. cal is located in [NA] and he is available to meet: NO