Degree of Facial and Body Terminal Hair Growth in Unselected Black and White Women: Toward a Populational Definition of Hirsutism
| Autor: | Catherine Marin DeUgarte, Alfred A. Bartolucci, Ricardo Azziz, Keslie S. Woods |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Hirsutism medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Population Clinical Biochemistry Black People Physical examination Context (language use) Terminal hair Biochemistry White People Body Mass Index Endocrinology Internal medicine medicine Humans Prospective Studies education hirsutism Aged education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Biochemistry (medical) Middle Aged medicine.disease Body hair Female business Body mass index Negroid Hair |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 91:1345-1350 |
| ISSN: | 1945-7197 0021-972X |
| DOI: | 10.1210/jc.2004-2301 |
| Popis: | Hirsutism (i.e. facial and body terminal hair growth in a male-like pattern in women) is the principal clinical sign of hyperandrogenism, although its definition remains unclear.The purposes of the present study were to define 1) the degree of facial and body terminal hair, as assessed by the modified Ferriman-Gallwey (mFG) score, in unselected women from the general population; 2) the effect of race (Black and White) on the same; and 3) the normative cutoff values.We conducted a prospective observational study at a tertiary academic medical center.Participants included 633 unselected White (n = 283) and Black (n = 350) women presenting for a preemployment physical exam.Interventions included history and physical examination.Terminal body hair growth was assessed using the mFG scoring system; nine body areas were scored from 0-4 for terminal hair growth distribution.The mFG scores were not normally distributed; although cluster analysis failed to identify a natural cutoff value or clustering of the population, principal component and univariate analyses denoted two nearly distinct clusters that occurred above and below an mFG value of 2, with the bulk of the scores below. Overall, an mFG score of at least 3 was observed in 22.1% of all subjects (i.e. the upper quartile); of these subjects, 69.3% complained of being hirsute, compared with 15.8% of women with an mFG score below this value, and similar to the proportion of women with an mFG score of at least 8 who considered themselves to be hirsute (70.0%). Overall, there were no significant differences between Black and White women.Our data indicate that the prevalence and degree of facial and body terminal hair growth, as assessed by the mFG score, is similar in Black and White women and that an mFG of at least 3 signals the population of women whose hair growth falls out of the norm. |
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