{"id":3811472,"date":"2022-04-28T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/?p=3811472"},"modified":"2023-03-16T05:31:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:31:04","slug":"causes-of-hirsutism-mnemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/causes-of-hirsutism-mnemonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of Hirsutism Mnemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hirsutism is a pattern of <strong>excess terminal hair growth <\/strong>(dark, coarse hair) in the classic androgen-dependent areas (chin, upper lip, upper abdomen, chest, and back) in a woman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hypertrichosis<\/strong>, on the other hand, is the proliferation of light, unpigmented hair in non-androgen-dependent (non-sexual) areas. Hypothyroidism and medications like phenytoin and minoxidil can cause generalized hair growth (hypertrichosis).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/DALLE_Chest-hair.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/DALLE_Chest-hair.jpg 540w, https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/DALLE_Chest-hair-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/DALLE_Chest-hair-150x150.jpg 150w\" alt=\"mnemonic for hirsutism\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Mnemonic<\/h2>\n<p>A simple mnemonic for recalling the endocrine causes of hirsutism during your examination (multiple choice questions or OSCE\u2019s) is \u201cHAIR On Chest\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>H<\/strong>yperandrogenism, insulin resistance, acanthosis nigricans (<em>HAIR-AN syndrome<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/drugs-causing-hyperprolactinemia-mnemonic\/\"><strong>H<\/strong>yperprolactinemia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>A<\/strong>drenal carcinoma<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/acromegaly\/\"><strong>A<\/strong>cromegaly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>IR <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/pathophysiology-of-pcos\/\">Insulin Resistance of PCOS<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>varian hyperthecosis<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>varian tumors<\/li>\n<li><strong>O<\/strong>besity<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/what-is-cushings-syndrome\/\"><strong>C<\/strong>ushing\u2019s syndrome<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/cah-mnemonic\/\"><strong>C<\/strong>ongenital adrenal hyperplasia<\/a> (classic and non-classic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hirsutism is a pattern of excess terminal hair growth (dark, coarse hair) in the classic androgen-dependent areas (chin, upper lip, upper abdomen, chest, and back) in a woman. Hypertrichosis, on the other hand, is the proliferation of light, unpigmented hair in non-androgen-dependent (non-sexual) areas. Hypothyroidism and medications like phenytoin and minoxidil can cause generalized hair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mnemonics","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811472"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415811,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811472\/revisions\/4415811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}