SCR-LIP-000361 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →

The first Dutch lipedema guidelines define clinical diagnostic criteria requiring all five Wold anamnestic criteria (disproportionate fat distribution, poor fat response to weight loss, pain/easy bruising, touch sensitivity/extremity fatigue, no pain reduction with elevation) plus at least one regional physical-examination criterion pair, with extra criteria (bimanual palpation pain, distal-knee lipomas) compensating when up to two criteria are absent, while noting the absence of objective diagnostic criteria.

Created: 2026-05-31 · Last updated: 2026-05-31

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• DOI:10.1177/0268355516639421 — supporting · review · 2017
  The article is a national guideline proposing explicit clinical diagnostic criteria (Wold criteria plus physical-exam criteria) and a clinimetric data set for lipedema, directly addressing the diagnostic criteria portion of the question; it

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• What clinical criteria and stage/type classification systems are used to diagnose and grade lipedema, and how reliable are they? supporting

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• 2026-05-31 — created · auto-ingested for SQ-LIP-000022

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