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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
- | Hair graying, also known as achromotrichia, | + | Hair graying, also known as achromotrichia, |
Hair loss and hair color loss is very common in Th1 disease (it is made even worse by medications such as prednisone). | Hair loss and hair color loss is very common in Th1 disease (it is made even worse by medications such as prednisone). | ||
- | For most researchers at least, the mechanisms which ultimately drive the process are largely unknown, | + | For most researchers at least, the mechanisms which ultimately drive the process are largely unknown, |
One important factor in understanding why hair turns gray may prove to be activity to the Vitamin D Receptor (VDR), a receptor which is responsible for mounting an immune response to pathogenic bacteria. One of the many genes the Receptor transcribes is for hair follicles. | One important factor in understanding why hair turns gray may prove to be activity to the Vitamin D Receptor (VDR), a receptor which is responsible for mounting an immune response to pathogenic bacteria. One of the many genes the Receptor transcribes is for hair follicles. | ||
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- | * **Heart attack (myocardial infarction)** – After statistical adjustment for possible confounders, | + | * **Heart attack: (myocardial infarction)** – After statistical adjustment for possible confounders, |
- | * **Vitilligo** – Patients with vitiligo frequently have premature gray hair.(({{pubmed> | + | * **Vitilligo** – Patients with vitiligo frequently have premature gray hair.(({{pmid> |
===== Patients experiences ===== | ===== Patients experiences ===== | ||
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I have very little gray hair and the new hair that is growing in is black rather than gray. | I have very little gray hair and the new hair that is growing in is black rather than gray. | ||
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===== Notes and comments ===== | ===== Notes and comments ===== | ||
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-Also, have a “symptom” to take off my list, which I never had put on the list since I thought it was normal. Last month when it was time to do the roots of my hair to cover grey, I couldn' | -Also, have a “symptom” to take off my list, which I never had put on the list since I thought it was normal. Last month when it was time to do the roots of my hair to cover grey, I couldn' | ||
- | ===== References ===== | + | ===== References =====</ |