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In a Swedish national survey of women with lipedema, 69% reported symptom onset before age 30 but the most frequent age at diagnosis was 50-59 years (34.9%), with the most common subtype being combined type 3+4 (buttocks-ankles plus arms) in 58.7% of participants.

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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• DOI:10.1186/s12905-022-02022-3 — context · cross sectional · 2022
  The article describes a female-only lipedema population, including age of onset (often <30 years), age at diagnosis, comorbidities, and subtype distribution, providing demographic context relevant to who lipedema affects, though it does not

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• How common is lipedema, and who does it affect? context

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• 2026-05-31 — created · auto-ingested for SQ-LIP-000002

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