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  Race and ethnicity sub-groups of alopecia areata patients have differing
  clinical characteristics: TARGET-DERM AA.
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  Explore this publication on real-world evidence: Race and ethnicity sub-groups
  of alopecia areata patients have differing clinical characteristics:…
date: '2025-01-01'
category: Publications
tags:
  - Poster Presentation
  - R&D
  - Care
  - Dermatology
  - Alopecia Areata (AA)
  - Health System Partner
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## Challenge

While AA is known to affect diverse populations, real-world data characterizing differences in disease severity, hair loss pattern, and eyebrow/eyelash involvement across racial and ethnic subgroups in a large North American registry were absent, limiting equity-conscious trial design and label generalizability.

## Solution

The TARGET-DERM AA registry was analyzed to compare SALT scores, CGI-AA, PGIS-AA, and eyebrow/eyelash involvement across Non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, Non-Hispanic Black, and Non-Hispanic Asian AA patients in a cross-sectional analysis at enrollment.

## Impact

Establishing that Non-Hispanic Asian patients have the highest rates of severe AA and NH-Hispanic patients the lowest provides the demographic stratification data needed to design representative AA trials and interpret subgroup analyses in regulatory submissions.

### [Breda Munoz](/people/breda-munoz/)

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### [Julie M. Crawford](/people/julie-crawford/)