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Alopecia areata (al-oh-PEE-shah air-ee-AH-tah) is an unpredictable, autoimmune skin disease resulting in the loss of hair on the head and elsewhere on the bodies of people afflicted with this disease.

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Alopecia areata is a common disease that affects approximately 1.8% of the population in Michigan and includes more than 5 million people in the United States. Think about that for a minute- about 1 in 50 people in Michigan suffer from this disease.

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Alopecia Areata usually starts with a small, round, smooth patch of hair loss. It occurs in males and females of all ages and races, but onset most commonly occurs in childhood. It usually does not occur prior to 18 months of age.

It is estimated that approximately two percent of the population will be affected at some point in their lives. Alopecia Areata may cycle through expression and remission. When hair does start to regrow after a bout with the disease, it tends to be very fine "peach fuzzy type" hair. Eventually it regains most or all of its normal color and texture.

Heredity plays a role in developing Alopecia Areata. In one out of five persons with alopecia areata, someone else in the family also has the disease.

Those who develop alopecia areata for the first time after the age of thirty years have less likelihood that another family member will have it. Those who develop their first patch of alopecia areata before the age of thirty have a higher possibility that other family members will also have it.

• Children's Alopecia Project
• National Alopecia Areata Foundation

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