SCR-LIP-000139 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →
This case report of a 53-year-old male with lipedema notes that lipedema is less frequent in men than in women, that obesity is the principal aggravating factor in both sexes, and that the authors' case series detects lymphedema by multi-segment bioimpedance in 50% of individuals with lipedema and BMI above 30 kg/m2.
Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31
Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · 2026-05-31
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- Lipedema in Male Progressing to Subclinical and Clinical Systemic Lymphedema — Pereira de Godoy et al. (2022) — context · case report · 2022
A single male case report that incidentally comments on lipedema being less common in men and on obesity as an aggravating factor, providing only contextual, anecdotal information about who lipedema affects rather than rigorous epidemiologi
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- 2026-05-31 — created