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Lipoedema is a chronic, painful disease that almost exclusively affects women | ABC News

Lipoedema is a painful, debilitating and poorly understood medical condition. It leads to a build-up of nodular fat to form, usually, in a patient's legs. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE The condition leads to intense swelling and joint pain with legs that bruise easily and are painful to touch. Patients say they're often misdiagnosed as having obesity and told they just need to lose weight. Advocates say this can lead to patients being shamed, including by medical professionals, which is why some are calling for better recognition of the condition, and change. ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad, including the latest coronavirus pandemic updates. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation. For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Watch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 Like ABC News on Facebook:   / abcnews.au   Follow ABC News on Instagram:   / abcnews_au   Follow ABC News on Twitter:   / abcnews   Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia #breakingnews