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Age-Related General Problems Affecting the Condition of Hair

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Older patients suffer from a variety of conditions that affect the hair, i.e. nutritional deficiency, endocrine disorders, psychologic problems, and drug-related adverse effects. The quantity and quality of hair are closely related to the nutritional, general, and mental health state of the individual. Sometimes, symptoms of overt pathologic conditions are misinterpreted as signs of normal aging, ignored and left untreated. In taking care of older patients with hair problems, it is therefore important to be suspicious of the possibility of a more general problem underlying the patient’s complaint. The increasing number of chronic conditions per patient and the increasing amount of multimorbidity in the elderly population lead to a more complex approach to successful therapy of hair problems in the elderly.

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Trüeb, R.M. (2010). Age-Related General Problems Affecting the Condition of Hair. In: Trüeb, R., Tobin, D. (eds) Aging Hair. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02636-2_15

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