Hair Elemental Status as a Diagnostic Parameter: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities

Hair analysis can show nutritional status and environmental exposure, with phosphorus being very stable in hair and differences found based on gender and conditions like depression and autism.

Some vitamins and minerals are important for preventing hair loss, but treating hair loss with them without a known deficiency is not proven effective.

Hair elemental analysis could be useful for health and exposure assessment but requires more standardization and research.

Correcting trace element imbalances may help reduce alopecia areata symptoms.

Lower hair zinc and copper levels found in Turkish males with hair loss; higher BMI linked to less hair zinc.

Hair and serum levels of zinc, copper, and iron are similar in people with alopecia areata and healthy individuals.

Female pattern hair loss diagnosed by scalp appearance, treated with combined therapies and targeted approaches.

Diagnosing diffuse alopecia, a hair loss condition, can be challenging and may require a scalp biopsy or tracking the disease's progression when symptoms and skin tests aren't enough.

Hair mineral content can help diagnose certain common illnesses.

Women with AGA have more androstenedione and dihydrotestosterone, less copper and zinc; copper imbalance affects AGA; treatment improves hormones and minerals.