Is there a relationship between alopecia and anthropometric indicators? Modern scientific view

Abstract

Annotation. Alopecia is a widespread disease that affects different strata of the population by age, gender, socio-economic status and causes pathological hair loss on the human body. First of all, attention is drawn to the loss of hair follicles on the head, which causes significant psychological discomfort in these patients. Complex pathogenesis, high costs of treatment and lack of etiotropic treatment require a comprehensive review of this pathology. One of such promising, but underestimated directions is anthropometric, which involves the study of height, weight, circumferences and other parameters of the human body. The purpose of the study is to conduct a review of literary sources for the period 2013-2023, which is related to human anthropometric indicators and alopecia, using the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the analysis of publications. Taking into account the criteria for inclusion in the review, an analysis of 33 literary sources was carried out. The result of summarizing the research data shows that for many diseases of the skin and its appendages, anthropometric indicators have been identified, which allow forming risk groups of the occurrence or severity of the course of the disease. The results related to the analysis of samples of patients with one or another form of alopecia show that this disease is characterized by pronounced manifestations of sexual dimorphism in relation to anthropometric indicators, and most often correlations relate to such indicators as weight, body mass index, and waist circumference. Thus, the analysis of literary sources proves that there is a need to conduct an anthropometric study of representatives of the Ukrainian nationality suffering from alopecia of various genesis in order to further identify indicators that can be used to predict the risk of occurrence and course of this disease. During the research, it is necessary to pay special attention to the formation of a homogeneous sample according to the most key indicators, such as age, sex, concomitant diseases, type of alopecia, etc. In the future, it is planned to carry out a clinical study on a sample of people, residents of the Podillia region of Ukraine, suffering from alopecia.