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.

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) — context · cross sectional · 2024
  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.

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• How common is lipedema, and who does it affect? context

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