SCR-LIP-000077 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →
In a survey of 209 German female lipedema patients who underwent liposuction, the average age was 38.5 years, first manifestation occurred at age 16, and diagnosis took a mean of 15 years to achieve, with comorbidities including hypothyroidism (35.9%) and depression (23.0%) at rates exceeding general population prevalence.
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- New Insights on Lipedema: The Enigmatic Disease of the Peripheral Fat — Bauer et al. (2019) — context · cross sectional · 2019
The article provides descriptive epidemiological data on lipedema patients (exclusively female, average age, age of onset, time to diagnosis), which is relevant to who lipedema affects, but the sample is limited to postoperative patients in
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