There Are Many Types Of
Male Hair Loss

This page will help identify which type of male hair loss affects you, and what other types can affect men.

Nearly everyone seems to know that the main type is called male pattern baldness. But this is not the only type of hair loss men can suffer.

What type of male hair loss do you have?

This is a very important question to answer. And you can only really do this from your doctor or a hair specialist.

However, in the vast majority of cases, male hair loss is caused by male pattern baldness.

Up to 80% of all men will experience some form of hair loss, and in over 95% of these cases, this will this be due to male pattern baldness (also known as androgenic alopecia).

Androgenic Alopecia

The scientific name of male pattern baldness is alopecia androgenetica. And, as the name suggests, it involves androgens (male sex hormones) and is a genetic condition that can be passed from one generation to the next. Sometimes it can also skip a generation. So, for example, if your mothers' father went bald, you too are at high risk (and this is regardless of whether or not your father went bald). This type of male hair loss is very easy to spot - this picture shows a typical example.

Note that, when it first starts, male pattern baldness might seem to only affect the back of the head (thinning hair eventually forming a bald patch) or the front (temple recession).

However, given time, wherever it starts, this type of hair loss nearly always seems to spread across the whole male pattern baldness region and (more or less) resemble the picture above.

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Apart from androgenic alopecia, there are conditions that can lead to other types of male hair loss (and this is regardless of genetic inheritance).

Alopecia Areata

If your hair loss is patchy, and falls out extremely quickly (i.e. overnight and in clumps) then it's probably alopecia areata (or one of its related conditions: alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis). This type of hair loss also has a genetic connection and so can affect men and women. It is, however, very rare - only 1% of the population suffers from it (mostly women). However, if you recognise this type of hair loss from the picture, click here - alopecia areata. Click here for alopecia totalis and alopecia universalis.

Telogen Effluvium

This is another type of hair loss that mostly affects women - chronic telogen effluvium (CTE) has been linked to an iron deficiency, and a gradual iron depletion can result from the loss of blood during menstruation.

However, vegetarians may also suffer a lack of iron intake (the richest source of iron is from red meat). And so CTE can also be a type of male hair loss.

It takes the form of diffuse thinning across the scalp (i.e., evenly distributed hair loss). Click here to find out more about telogen effluvium.

Traction (Friction) Alopecia

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Chemotherapy Hair Loss

Cancer incidence between men and women varies (depending on the type of cancer involved). However, the powerful chemicals used to treat any form of this disease can carry the side effect of hair loss. As such, this type of hair loss can affect both men and women.
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Other types of hair loss

There are other (extremely rare) types of hair loss that also exist. To find out what they are, click here - Other types of hair loss.

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