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In a Brazilian cross-sectional screening study, hypothyroidism was common in women with lipedema (crude prevalence 19.4%) but was NOT an independent factor associated with lipedema on multivariate analysis (p=0.141) — the raw co-occurrence may reflect confounding (e.g. by obesity) rather than a true independent association.
Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31
Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 · 2026-05-31
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- Lipedema prevalence and risk factors in Brazil — Amato et al. (2022) — refines · cross sectional · 2022
The article reports hypothyroidism prevalence in lipedema patients across different cohorts but does not statistically test the association between lipedema and thyroid disease as a primary outcome; the data are descriptive and based on sel
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- 2026-05-31 — created