Medical Name(s)

Androgenetic alopecia

Alternate Name(s)

AGA; pattern hair loss

Androgenetic alopecia is a progressive, patterned miniaturisation of hair follicles driven by genetic susceptibility to dihydrotestosterone. It affects up to 80 % of men and 50 % of women over a lifetime.

				
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