{"id":4726,"date":"2025-10-20T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/20032023.lipo-clinic.events\/lipedema\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:20:55","slug":"lipedema","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lipo.clinic\/en\/lipedema\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipedema"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lipedema is a pathological fat distribution disorder<\/b> that causes pain and tightness in the arms and legs and predominantly affects women. Experts in medicine and research currently believe that lipedema develops as a consequence of a hormonal change such as puberty, pregnancy or perimenopause. Lipedema can be inherited from either parent. Lipedema develops during puberty in 85 % of cases, that is, at a time of life associated not just with physical changes but also many emotional upheavals. And in the middle of all this, painful and visible changes develop in the legs that nothing can shift or improve.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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What is lipedema?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Lipedema is a chronic, often hereditary, uncontrolled growth and enlargement of the fat cells in the arms, buttocks and legs that is possibly triggered by female hormones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lipedema is a pathological fat distribution disorder that causes pain and tightness and predominantly affects women. Three lipedema stages and four types of lipedema are differentiated. Three lipedema stages and four types of lipedema are differentiated.<\/p>\n

Causes of lipedema<\/b><\/p>\n

Specialists currently believe that one of the primary causes of lipedema is a hormonal change: The female hormone oestrogen leads to growth and enlargement of the fat cells.<\/p>\n

Lipedema has to date only been scientifically verified<\/a> to develop in the legs and arms. In 97 % of cases the legs are most often affected, particularly the thighs. But lipedema can also occur on the buttocks and hips.<\/p>\n

In 31 % of all cases the typical signs of lipedema can also be seen on the arms of patients. The arms initially often do not have any symptoms and also do not need to be treated. If and when the arms become symptomatic over time cannot be predicted.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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Symptoms
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Lipedema symptoms are often difficult to classify because of how they appear and their similarity to the symptoms of other disorders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting a diagnosis of lipedema is often a drawn out and difficult struggle because the symptoms are experienced by patients in very different ways and are often confused with those of other diseases. What is important is that affected patients have access to a doctor who has experience with lipedema. Many practices now offer specialist consultations. The initial diagnosis can often be made by a phlebologist.<\/p>\n

Symptoms similar to those experienced with lipedema may occur with diseases such as fibromyalgia, chronic musculoskeletal pain, polyneuropathy or even chronic venous insufficiency. These include:<\/p>\n