Update on advances in alopecia therapy
The lifetime risk of developing alopecia areata (AA) is 2.1% and, like other auto-immune diseases, AA has shown an increased incidence, which appears to be equal across ethnicities and gender, according to Dr. Carolyn Goh. The assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine-Dermatology at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine discussed the topic during a symposium at the recent annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in Orlando, Fla. As many as four