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In a DXA body composition study comparing lipedema patients to controls, the article cites subcutaneous ultrasound as achieving an AUC of 0.91 for lipedema diagnosis (Amato et al. 2021), while reporting DXA's own leg FM/total FM index reached AUC=0.90 with sensitivity 0.95 and specificity 0.73.
Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31
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- DOI:10.1159/000527138 — context · cross sectional · 2022
The article primarily evaluates DXA for lipedema diagnosis, not ultrasound. It only mentions ultrasound's diagnostic AUC (0.91) as a cited comparison from another study (Amato et al. 2021), so it provides indirect contextual support rather
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- 2026-05-31 — created · auto-ingested for SQ-LIP-000003