{"id":4480,"date":"2016-09-28T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2016-09-28T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T13:22:42","slug":"these-women-discovered-it-wasnt-just-fat-it-was-lipedema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4480","title":{"rendered":"These Women Discovered It Wasn&#8217;t Just Fat: It Was Lipedema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lesley McClurg for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Judy Maggiore remembers looking in the mirror in college, perplexed by her body&#8217;s disproportion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was skinny. I was a stick. The upper part of my body was really, really thin. You could see my ribs!&#8221; exclaims Maggiore. &#8220;But from the waist down, it was like there were two of me or something.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/28\/495632851\/these-women-discovered-it-wasnt-just-fat-it-was-lipedema?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=35012749&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--9Xo3oixCQ99AM1_ie_tWSWhnT11HezA5odkC8FQuNgf4r0kdaYDXj-688e_fMvke8zKCyUpFg1whiQCkuwWdSM2LoDA&amp;_hsmi=35012749\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"NPR logo\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lesley McClurg for NPR) Judy Maggiore remembers looking in the mirror in college, perplexed by her body&#8217;s disproportion. &#8220;I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}