Risk Factors Associated with Premature Hair Greying of Young Adult

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Many researchers have been indicated that premature hair greying (PHG) may be associated with the multifactorial problem include genetic, trace elements deficiencies and some medical problems such as metabolic disorders. However, the risk factors for premature hair greying are not well known for young adult.
 AIM: This study aimed to determine the risk factors of hair greying in young adult.
 METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study recruited 100 respondents of a college student at the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) with the inclusion criteria: male, less than 25 years old with hair greying and not have skin pigmentation disorders. The questionnaires about greying of hair status, family history of greying and history of family disease were collected by self-report.
 RESULTS: The age of participants in this study was 20.09 ± 2.01 years (mean ± SD). The mean onset of PHG was 15.23 ± 3.52 years (range: 9 – 22 years). The family history of PHG was 39% with paternal in 262%; maternal in 10%% and both parents in 3%. There was a significant difference between several grey hairs with a family history of PHG P = 0.045. The family history with metabolic disorders; hypertension was 29%, obesity was 25%, and diabetes Mellitus (DM) was 15%. Limitations: Owing to the use of questionnaires, the possibility of recall bias exists. The young female was not evaluated in this study.
 CONCLUSION: The family history of PHG and onset of greying are important risk factors associated with PHG of a young adult.

Biomarker of Oxidative Stress in Premature Hair Graying at Young Age

“…The questionnaires, including onset, location, and numbers of graying hair, were collected. The classification of canities with the total number of graying as mild (<10 gray hair); moderate (10-100 gray hair); and severe (>100 gray hair) [2]. The blood samples were collected from antecubital vein to assess stress oxidative biomarkers in both PHG and controls.…”

“…Graying hair (canities senilis) is one of the markers of the natural aging process that generally occurs regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, and nationality. Although generally, it does not cause medical problems, it is very troubling for many people for certain reasons, such as aesthetic problems, especially at young age [1], [2]. Graying hair occurs due to a mixture of normal pigment, hypomelanotic, and amelanotic melanosome.…”

Clinical, epidemiological characteristics and associated factors of hair greying in Lagos, Nigeria

“…2,9 The risk factors identified for HG include chronological age, smoking, alcohol, oxidative stress, metabolic diseases, trace elements and stress. 2,[9][10][11][12] The few epidemiological studies available reveal that the prevalence of premature hair greying (PHG) varies between 7.5% and 36.4%. 4,5 On the other hand, the prevalence of HG is 69% and 75%.…”

Prevalence of premature canities among college students studying in a private medical college, Chennai

“…Appearance of gray hair is the physiological visible ageing process [2]. However premature canities refers to occurrence of gray hair before the age of 20 years in Whites, 30 years in African's and 25 years in Asians [3]. Premature canities lowers the self-confident and communication and also act as a predictor of systematic diseases [4,5].…”

“…However premature canities refers to occurrence of gray hair before the age of 20 years in Whites, 30 years in African's and 25 years in Asians [3]. Premature canities lowers the self-confident and communication and also act as a predictor of systematic diseases [4,5]. Aging of hair related to depigmentation of the hair due to reduced melanin synthesis by melanocytes the pigment producing cells [6].…”