What Type Of Hairloss Does He Have??

[Dutchie]

What type of hairloss does Napolitano have?? Is it just retrograde alopecia, or is it the dreaded DUPA??
(I'm talking specifically about the right side above his temple)

 

[Michael1986]

The guy has an absurdly low hairline, but it does look like he has some thinning in the area just behind his hairline. This thinning is probably androgenic in nature by the balance of probability, but it could possibly be some completely different form of hair loss.

 

[DoctorHouse]

Age related hair loss. Your hair diameter gets smaller as you age. You can have full coverage but your density decreases as you age. His hair is gray and he dyes it. Poor color choice. If he dyed his hair darker he would appear to have more density and less light can reflect off his scalp to show diffuse thinning. Gray fine hairs can allow the scalp to show more and give that diffuse look.

 

[Dutchie]

Can you get DUPA at any age, or does it mostly happen in younger guys??

 

[Alexander Shenton]

Age

 

[Ikarus]

He has no hair loss, his hair strands are probably just becoming more weaker and straggly due to age.

 

[Balding Boulder]

His hairline is too low. Looks ridiculous.

 

[Dutchie]

His hairline is too low. Looks ridiculous

I've noticed a lot Mexicans and latinos have that low hairline

 

[BetaBoy]

Age related hair loss. Your hair diameter gets smaller as you age. You can have full coverage but your density decreases as you age. His hair is gray and he dyes it. Poor color choice. If he dyed his hair darker he would appear to have more density and less light can reflect off his scalp to show diffuse thinning. Gray fine hairs can allow the scalp to show more and give that diffuse look.

This is highly unlikely, studies have shown that this is just simply the work of androgens.

 

[DoctorHouse]

This is highly unlikely, studies have shown that this is just simply the work of androgens.

True but there can be some exceptions. It's hard to say if this guy is the exception but you are most likely right that androgens are at work. I thought he might be an exception due to his low juvenile hairline but if I really think about it, our hormones change as we age and are influenced by environmental factors as well.
Senescent alopecia was originally thought to affect people aged 50 years or older with no family history or evidence of pattern balding. It was described as a diffuse thinning involving the whole scalp due to a steady decrease in thick terminal hairs, but without evidence of increased miniaturization. Senescent alopecia is not a primary diagnosis in this clinic. Most possible examples of it are assumed to be androgenetic or diffuse alopecia. In the study reported here, horizontal sections of 2149 scalp specimens from individuals with male and female pattern and diffuse alopecia, as well as from normal controls, were examined, and their follicular counts were recorded and sorted into decades. The decade of 20 to 29 years contained a significant number of patients and was used for baseline follicular counts for comparison with all succeeding decades up to age 99 years. A reduction of 15% below baseline was considered significant. In 10.6% of patients with male pattern alopecia, the age of onset of a significant reduction in follicular counts was 50 years; in 5.7% of patients with female pattern alopecia it was 70 years, and in 2.0% of patients with diffuse alopecia it was 80 years. These data suggest that most cases of significant hair loss in the elderly are androgen driven. The few patients with deteriorating diffuse alopecia may be the exception. The study concluded that old age is not a significant cause of hair loss.

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