Table 3.
Terminal hair (in %) in several body areas in hirsute women
| Body area | Country and age of females |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England (a) age 15-44 (n=257) | Holland (b) age 18-43 (n=81) | India (c) age 15-48 (n=100) | Norwayn (d) age 16-44 (n=100) | Wales (e) age 18 (n=400) | USA (f) age 18-24 (n=350) | |
| Upper lip | 41 | 33 | 0 | 8 | 26 | – |
| Chin | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | – | – |
| Arm | 18 | 17 | 3 | 55 | – | – |
| Forearm | 78 | 60 | 50 | 88 | – | – |
| Chest | 16 | 40 | 0 | 54 | 17 | – |
| Stomac area | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | – |
| Belly | 25 | 53 | 3 | 29 | 35 | 35 |
| Upper back | 0 | <1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | – |
| Lower back | 13 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 16 | – |
| Thigh | 34 | 53 | 50 | 46 | – | – |
| Calf | 94 | 96 | 66 | 96 | – | – |
(a) Ferriman & Gallwey (1961); (b) Derksen et al. (1993); (c) Shah (1957); (d) Lunde & Grottum (1984); (e) McKnight (1964); (f) Danforth & Trotter (1922).