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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/canaafor/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114If you’ve participated in a clinical trial, you may have heard of the Severity of Alopecia Tool (SALT), a method of assessing how severe an individual’s alopecia areata is. This scale assigns a score based on the amount of hair loss on the scalp. However, this score does not take into account the whole picture. As we in the alopecia community know, this disease can affect various hair-bearing areas of the body, as well as a person’s mental health.<\/p>\n
This year, a team of clinical experts in the US developed a new scale that encompasses the key aspects of alopecia areata when determining severity.\u00a0 This scale is called the Alopecia Areata Scale<\/strong> or AA Scale<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The AA Scale still primarily takes into account scalp hair loss to determine severity, but also includes four secondary features which impact score:<\/p>\n The presence of at least one of these factors raises the severity level by one.<\/p>\n The Alopecia Areata scale is used in clinical trials<\/a><\/span><\/span> to improve treatment options for alopecia areata and guides experts to better understand the wide-ranging impacts of the disease. This is a promising advancement as researchers continue to understand more about what matters to the alopecia community.<\/p>\n Read what dermatologist Dr. Brett King says about the AA Scale at concertpharma.com<\/a><\/span><\/span>, or view the original publication here<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Clinical experts have developed a tool called the Alopecia Areata Scale to assess the severity of alopecia areata. This tool, unlike past methods accounts for more than scalp hair loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"yoast_head":"\n\n