Facts About Women’s Hair Loss
- Approximately 30 million women (one in four) experience hereditary women’s hair loss or baldness.
- 40% of women never expect to face the challenge of hair loss or baldness.
- 50% of women experience hair loss by middle age.
- Typically, a woman’s hair is at its thickest by age 20. After age 20, hair gradually begins to thin, shedding more than the normal 40-100 hairs each day.
- Fine hair is both a precursor for and a consequence of, hair thinning. Women who experience hair loss have a disproportionately high rate of fine hair before they start losing hair.
Women’s hair loss triggers emotional upset.
Hair loss may cause severe emotional stress for most women. Many women who did not expect to face hair loss are often caught by surprise, sometimes up to five years earlier than expected. Studies have reported that women have a difficult time confronting hair loss:
- Female study participants under age 50 reported feeling a “severe emotional blow.”
- 29% admitted feeling scared.
- 47% said they were embarrassed.
- 15% felt unattractive.
- 28% experienced paranoia.
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