Australia; VIC
Aussie experts have led a study that brought together hair and scalp experts from around the world to identify the factors that define Alopecia areata severity, to try and better capture the impacts of the disease. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss, and current severity measures focus on scalp hair loss, without considering hair loss in other places, such as eyebrows, eyelashes and beards, or the psychological and social impacts of the disease. Now international experts have agreed that these non-scalp hair loss measures must be incorporated into any tool to measure severity, alongside other measures including a history of relapse, an inadequate repose to treatments, and psychological and social outcomes.
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