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Premature Baldness Hits Workaholics


Thu 24 Oct 2019 | 05:40 PM
Ahmed Moamar

A study conducted by a team of researchers in one universities of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea,  revealed that premature baldness hits work alcoholic at higher rates compared to other people who work in normal conditions.

The team members found that persons who work for more than 52 hours a week lost their hair faster than others who work for 40 hours a week.

The researchers say that it is possible that stress result of more work and deprive of rest is the main factor for thinning of hair.

They examined some 13 thousand white collars  at the age 20-59 year at the period of 2013 to 2017,  for the first time to check the ties between work stress and baldness.

Hours of work, age, social status, monthly income and smoking were factors screeched by the team Work for long hours causes hair to be thinned as a result of changing of level of hormones in the blood.

Stress also hurts another organs in the human body such as brain, eyes and even skin. Disorder of hormones aborts growing of roots of hair in the scalp.

Other studies prove that stress leaves negative effects on the immunity system for unknown reasons.

It is thought that stress perishes the natural growing of hair in the early stage of the age. No new hair grows again at that phase of the age so it falls patches of the scalp still clear.

The researchers urge the legislators to make laws reduce daily hours of work to keep their health sound. They warn that work for extended hours lead to complicated diseases such as   lupus and thinning hair.

It is worth mentioning that baldness or hair loss  refers to a loss of hair from part of the head or body. Typically at least the head is involved. The severity of hair loss can vary from a small area to the entire body.

Inflammation or scarring is not usually present. Hair loss in some people causes psychological distress.