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In a cross-sectional survey of 245 women with lipedema, health-related stigma was significantly higher than in an age-matched general female population (Distress 49.5 vs 17.1–28.7; 65% with moderate/severe distress) and correlated negatively with all RAND-36 quality-of-life domains (strongest for social functioning r=−0.54 and emotional well-being r=−0.50), while greater perceived social support correlated positively with HRQoL.
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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- Health-related stigma, perceived social support, and their role in quality of life among women with lipedema — Falck et al. (2025) — supporting · cross sectional · 2025
The article directly examines quality of life and emotional well-being in lipedema patients, reporting that higher stigma is associated with lower HRQoL and worse emotional functioning, supporting the question's affirmative direction regard
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- 2026-05-31 — created · auto-ingested for SQ-LIP-000020