SCR-LIP-000076 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →
In a national survey of 707 U.S. women with lipedema, the mean age was 48.6 years and mean BMI was 40.9 kg/m², with symptom onset most commonly at puberty (48.0%) or pregnancy (41.2%), and the condition exclusively affected women in this sample.
Claim at a glance
- Type
- clinical association
- Knowledge state
- Emerging
- Evidence certainty
- moderate (GRADE)
- Evidence
- 1 source(s)
- Answers
- 1 question(s)
- Dates
- 2026-05-31 → 2026-05-31
Structured evidence, machine-compiled — not a verdict.
Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 · 2026-05-31
Evidence over time
Evidence (1)
- National survey of patient symptoms and therapies among 707 women with a lipedema phenotype in the United States — Aday et al. (2024) ✓ verified — contextual · cross sectional · 2024 · reading confidence: high
“Those with lipedema had a mean age of 48.6 years and mean BMI of 40.9 kg/m2. Lipedema symptom onset occurred frequently at puberty (48.0%) or pregnancy (41.2%).”
The survey provides demographic and clinical characteristics of a large U.S. lipedema cohort, offering context on who is affected and when symptoms begin, but does not report population prevalence estimates.
Context (PECO)
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Change log
- 2026-05-31 — created