The top cities in the country most concerned about losing their hair due to stress

According to statistics, 35 million men and 21 million women suffer from hair loss worldwide, with females who experience high-stress levels 11 times more likely to lose their locks.

Three types of hair loss can be associated with high-stress levels – telogen effluvium (excessive shedding), alopecia areata (an autoimmune disorder) and trichotillomania
(urge to pull hair out).

The most common,
telogen
effluvium, is a form of hair loss characterised by hair thinning and an increase in hair shedding and can be triggered by significant
stress or a traumatic event. With this type, less hair is grown during the anagen phase, making the hair growth process significantly slower and pushing a large number of hair follicles into the telogen/resting phase.

Ahead of Stress Awareness Day,
Milk + Blush
analysed Google search data to discover which of the UK’s major cities had the highest proportion of citizens concerned about stress-related hair loss in the last year.

Despite having one of the smallest population sizes of 488,050, Edinburgh is in first place, with one in every 321 residents searching for ways to combat hair
loss induced by stress, a total of 1,520 average monthly searches.

The UK city with the second highest proportion of residents demanding answers is Leeds, with one in every 336 of its 503,388 residents concerned about losing
their locks and 1,500 searches per month on average.

Manchester residents closely followed, with 1,600 people searching per month – one in every 347 residents concerned about stress-related hair loss in the city
of over 500,00 people.

Completing the top five most concerned cities is Bristol (1 in 376) and Glasgow (1 in 387), with 1,520, 1,580 searches a month, respectively.