Why do some guys have chest hair and others don t?

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Hair that develops during puberty

Most common chest hair pattern

Chest hair is hair that grows on the chest in the region between the neck and the abdomen. Chest hair develops during and after puberty along with other types of androgenic hair.

Development and growth [ edit ]

Although vellus hair is already present in the area in childhood, chest hair is the terminal hair that develops as an effect of rising levels of androgens (primarily testosterone and its derivatives) due to puberty. Different from the head hair, it is therefore a secondary sexual characteristic. Men tend to be covered with far more terminal hair, particularly on the chest, back, shoulders, upper arms, the abdomen, and the face. The development of chest hair begins normally during adulthood. Also, the development of back hair begins normally during adulthood.

Patterns and characteristics [ edit ]

The individual occurrence and characteristics of chest hair depend on the genetic disposition, the hormonal status and the age of the person. The genes primarily determine the amount, patterns and thickness of chest hair. Some men are very hairy, while others have no chest hair at all. All ranges and patterns of hair growth are normal. The areas where terminal hair may grow are the periareolar areas (nipples), the centre and sides of the chest and the clavicle collarbone. The direction of growth of hair can make for interesting patterns, akin to depictions of mathematical vector fields. Typical males will exhibit a node on the upper sternum, the hair above which points up and the hair below which points down. Some individuals have spirals on their upper pectoral regions (several inches from the nipple towards the neck) which run clockwise on the left breast and counter-clockwise on the right. Considering an individual occurrence of chest hair as abnormal is usually not due to medical indications but primarily to cultural and social attitudes. An excessive growth of terminal hair on the body of men and women is called hypertrichosis. This medical term has to be distinguished from hirsutism that just affects women. These women can develop terminal hair on the chest following the male pattern as a symptom of an endocrine disease.

Setty patterns [ edit ]

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Four areas in the Setty chest hair pattern system: infraclavicular (top), pectoral (left), sternal (middle) and circumareolar (right) There have been occasional studies documenting patterns of chest hair in men and occurrence of these patterns. A study of 1,400 white men aged 17 to 71 conducted by L.R. Setty in the 1960s defines 15 patterns of chest hair.[1][2][3][4] In this study, four parts of the chest in which terminal hair occurs were identified: Area Description Incidence[2] Sternal The center and lower part of the body of the breastbone 74% Infraclavicular The area immediately below the medial end of the collarbone; 63% Pectoral The breast area, including the area immediately around the areola (nipples); 77% Circumareolar A small area immediately encircling the areola. 16% Chest hair may occur on each of these areas independent from the others, making for a total of 15 combinations in addition to the apilose (bare) pattern. Hair is said to occur on both the pectoral and circumareolar areas when there is hair around the nipples and on the breast, but these areas are not connected. A C CI CS CP CPI CPS CPSI CSI I P PI PS PSI S SI The 16 chest hair patterns by Setty Pattern Name Incidence[2] A Apilose 6% C Circumareolar 6% CI Circumareolo-infraclavicular 1.5% CP Circumareolo-pectoral 0.1% CPI Circumareolo-pecto-infraclavicular 0.1% CPS Circumareolo-pecto-sternal 0.1% CPSI Circumareolo-pecto-sterno-infraclavicular 0.1% CS Circumareolo-sternal 5% CSI Circumareolo-sterno-infraclavicular 2% I Infraclavicular 0.5% P Pectoral 5% PI Pecto-infraclavicular 1.5% PS Pecto-sternal 13% PSI Pecto-sterno-infraclavicular 57% S Sternal 1.7% SI Sterno-infraclavicular 0.1% The pecto-sterno-infraclavicular pattern, in which the breast, sternum and medial end of the clavicle is covered with terminal hair, is most common (57%).