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KMID : 0377520160410010001
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Chung-Ang Journal of Medicine
2016 Volume.41 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.10
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An Epidemiological Study of Alopecia in 4,012 Korean Patients: 10-Year Follow Up
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Oh Won-Jong
Hong Ji-Yeon
Park Kui-Young
Li Kap-Sok
Kim Beom-Joon
Seo Seong-Jun
Kim Myeung-Nam
Hong Chang-Kwun
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Abstract
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In recent years, hair loss has become a subject of global concern. Although there have been many clinical studies on individual diseases associated with hair loss, long-term reports of overall alopecia patients in an outpatient clinic are rare. In this study, clinical records of 4,012 patients who visited the dermatology clinic at Chung-Ang University Hospital with various causes of alopecia were analyzed for diagnosis, age, sex, and annual distribution. During the last 10 years, clinically diagnosed alopecia patients comprised 5.32% of the total number of dermatology patients. The overall ratio of male to female patients was 1.3:1, with the number of female patients gradually increasing over the duration of the study. There was a trend of lowering in the age of onset of alopecia in both males and females, and more than 36.6% of patients visited the clinic within one year of onset. Family history was present in 41.5% of androgenic alopecia patients and 12.9% of alopecia areata patients. There were many comorbidities accompanying alopecia and the most frequently associated disease was seborrheic dermatitis. In this study, we could provide the essential findings from clinical data of various alopecia patients (n=4,012) over recent 10 years
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KEYWORD
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Alopecia, Alopecia areata, Androgenic alopecia, Epidemiological study, Long-term
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