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We Need to Talk About the Enormous Toll of Lipedema

It's a mental, emotional, physical, financial, and psychosocial burden.

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Lipedema is a chronic, progressive, and congenital disease that most physicians have never even heard of. Experts believe it impacts about 11 percent of women worldwide, and only very rarely, does it occur in men.

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