SCR-LIP-000366 · Claim · machine-readable JSON →

In a Swiss cohort of 381 lipedema patients classified by type (I-V) and stage (1-4), advanced stage correlated with age and BMI, but a Stemmer sign was positive in only 4.0% and validated questionnaire scores (HADS, BPI, FSS, SF-36) did not differ significantly between stages (p>0.5), revealing a dissociation between morphological stage and symptom burden.

Claim at a glance
Type
clinical association
Knowledge state
Emerging
Evidence certainty
moderate (GRADE)
Evidence
1 source(s)
Dates
2026-05-31 → 2026-05-31

Structured evidence, machine-compiled — not a verdict.

Auto-compiled by the Layer 1 surveillance loop; not yet human-reviewed. anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 · 2026-05-31

Evidence over time

2025Clinical characteristics, comorbidities, and correlation with advanced lipedema stages: A retrospective study from a Swiss referral centre — Luta et al. (2025) · contextual

Evidence (1)

Context (PECO)

PopulationSwiss women with lipedema, types I–V, stages 1–4
Conditionlipedema
Exposureadvanced morphological stage (staging 1–4)
Comparatorlower lipedema stages
Outcomesymptom burden (HADS, BPI, FSS, SF-36 scores)
Scopeauto-ingested from Layer 1 surveillance

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