SCR-LIP-000140 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →
This case report cites epidemiological data estimating lipedema prevalence at approximately 11% of the female population, predominantly affecting women, and reports a UK study finding 93% of patients with lipedema signs/symptoms were unrecognized by their physicians; it also describes lipedema persisting in a woman with low BMI (15 kg/m²), demonstrating it is not exclusive to overweight/obese women.
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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- A Young Woman with Excessive Fat in Lower Extremities Develops Disordered Eating and Is Subsequently Diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa, Lipedema, and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome — Wright & Herbst (2021) — context · case report · 2021
The article is a single case report but explicitly cites prevalence (~11% of women), sex predominance (women), and recognition rates relevant to how common lipedema is and whom it affects; epidemiological figures are cited from other source
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- 2026-05-31 — created