by Guy S Eakin, PhD
2020 will surely inspire many attempts to capture the year in review. In a year that required so much of our attention, it could certainly be forgiven if you missed some of the encouraging advances in the world of Lipedema research.
It was no easy feat for a research community distracted by the same things that distracted us all. 2020 required us all to become experts in many areas. We learned epidemiology from a global pandemic. We even learned a thing or two about murder hornets and making our own masks.
But if you were watching Lipedema research this year, there was much to learn, and many reasons to get excited for where research is taking us.
Over the US Thanksgiving holiday, the Lipedema Foundation staff put our heads together and counted down the top ten research observations we feel signal hope for the women living with this poorly known, and vastly understudied, condition.
We reviewed new insights on a wide range of studies -- an effort that took us from observations made at the molecular level through attitudes and perceptions of the patients themselves. In the end, we couldn’t limit ourselves to just ten, and we couldn’t do them justice in a single blog. So we have broken this effort into a series of posts examining the highlights and caveats of the research publications that emerged this year.
As we round out this very unique year, we would love for you to join us in counting down 2020’s most notable moments of Lipedema research.
Links to other articles in the series:
The Field is Growing! [Published Dec. 1]
A New Horizon for Diagnosis [Published Dec. 8]
Patients Are Being Heard [Published Dec. 16]
Bringing Power to Lipedema Research [Published Dec. 23]