We found associations between specific scalp diseases, hairstyles, gender, and age. These associations need further study, better to elucidate determinants and to improve disease prevention and treatment.

We found associations between hairstyle and disease in our population of schoolchildren. AKN appears to be associated with frequently cut natural hair and TA with relaxed hair. These associations need further study for purposes of disease prevention.

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Objective. To evaluate trabecular bone mineral density (BMD) in young ambulatory female patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).Methods. Bone mineral density (gm/cm2) at the lumbar vertebrae (Ll-L4) and at the left femur (neck, trochanter, intertrochanter, and Ward's triangle) was measured by dual x-ray absorptiometry in 46 SLE patients (mean age 31 years, mean disease duration 76 months) and in 108 healthy female controls (mean age 32 years). Twenty-two of the SLE patients were receiving corticosteroids (CS) at the time of the study.Results. Lumbar BMD in the SLE patients was less severely reduced than was BMD at the femoral sites, but the SLE group was closer to the lumbar fracture threshold of 0.812 gm/cm2 than was the control group (P = 0.0009). There were no significant differences between the SLE patients currently being treated with corticosteroids and those who were not (P > 0.3). BMD at Ward's triangle and at the femoral neck was not significantly reduced in the SLE patients. Total femoral BMD had a sensitivity of 76% and specificity of 62% in differentiating the SLE group from the controls. The