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In a cross-sectional study of 258 women with clinically diagnosed lipedema stratified by BMI, the prevalence of lower-limb clinical lymphedema rose from 6.1% (BMI <30) to 51.6% (BMI 30-40) to 77.8% (BMI 40-50), and subclinical systemic lymphedema from 16.3% to 48.3% to 72.2%, with a dose-response gradient by BMI.
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 and the Evolution to Lymphedema With the Progression of Obesity — Pereira de Godoy et al. (2020) — context · cross sectional · 2020
The article describes a population of women with lipedema and reports prevalence figures within that population, but it studies the prevalence of lymphedema progression among lipedema patients rather than the general prevalence of lipedema
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- 2026-05-31 — created