Introduction
With over 30 million American women suffering from female pattern baldness, understanding what causes this hair loss is important for all women. By understanding the reasons for hair loss in women, caused by female pattern baldness, the better a woman can deal with stopping the hair loss and re-growing what she has lost.
There are two things that play a major role in the cause of female pattern baldness, heredity and estrogen.
Heredity
The biggest cause of both male and female pattern baldness is heredity. It was originally thought that the female passed on the genes that cause male and female pattern baldness to the offspring. This has later been determined not to be true.
