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Facts about lipoedema and lymph/lipoedema

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Facts about lipoedema and lymph/lipoedema
Abstract
Knowledge of both the morphology/ pathomorphology and physiology/pathophysiology of adipose tissue is limited and the behaviour of fat tissue has not been widely researched. Changes in adipose tissue (hyperplasia, hyper trophy and atrophy) are defined differently and, as a consequence, diagnostic failures frequently occur. Figure 1 shows the complicated regulatory mechanisms which are responsible for lipolysis and lipogenesis. Even if body weight is normal, appearance depends on the distribution of subcutaneous adipose tissue (Figure 2). The amount of fat we carry and how we look are, in part, subject to fashion. What was still sexy several decades ago, a bigger waist and more on the hips, no longer corresponds to how we see perfection today. Figure 2 shows the different ideals of beauty — ‘Wonderwoman’, for example, where you can detect as little fat as possible. Recently, there has been a mania for slimness. In order to comply with the current trend in fashion, young girls starve or undergo surgical procedures to have the typical female fatty tissue removed.
Date
2008
Proceedings Title
Lymph-Lipoedema Treatment in its Different Approaches
Conference Name
1st JOBST Scientific Symposium
Publisher
Wounds UK
Pages
36-40
Language
en
ISBN
ISBN-13 978-0-9555758-6-0
Citation
Foeldi, E. (2008). Facts about lipoedema and lymph/lipoedema. Lymph-Lipoedema Treatment in Its Different Approaches, 36–40.