US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who in 2018
grew to be the first African American girl to characterize Massachusetts in the
House of Representatives, currently made public that she has been diagnosed
with alopecia areata. Pressley, who attended Boston University’s College of
General Studies in the early 1990s, shared the news in a transferring video on
The Root, opening up about the reality that after first noticing that her hair
was once starting to fall out this previous autumn, she has now lost all her
hair.
“I do believe going public will help,” Pressley says in the
video, the place she publicly confirmed her bald head for the first time.
“Because I’m not right here just to occupy space—I’m here to create it… I hope
this begins a conversation about the personal struggles we navigate, and I hope
that it creates recognition about how many people are impacted by alopecia. To
all those sharing their non-public memories in response, I see you.”
Alopecia areata is a disorder that ambitions the hair shaft,
says Lynne Goldberg, director of the Hair Clinic at Boston Medical Center. It
normally first appears in young adulthood, although human beings of all a while
can be affected. Goldberg, the Jag Bhawan Professor of Dermatology, and of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine,
talked with The Brink about alopecia and how she hopes Pressley’s disclosure
about having the disorder will raise consciousness and funding for extra lookup
on its causes.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that has both a genetic predisposition and environmental triggers. Different patients have different triggers, and stress can definitely play a role. Sometimes no trigger is identified.
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