Lower body weight loss type

Lower body weight loss refers to the clinical symptoms of lower body weight loss caused by diseases such as progressive lipodystrophy. Is one of the clinical symptoms of progressive lipodystrophy. Progressive lipodystrophy (progressivelipodystrophy), also known as head and chest fat dystrophy; Simons disease; Seip-Laurence syndrome. It is a rare autonomic nervous system disease characterized by metabolic disorders of adipose tissue. The clinical and histological characteristics are slowly progressive bilateral distribution, basically symmetrical, clear boundaries, atrophy or disappearance of subcutaneous adipose tissue, and sometimes combined with limited adipose tissue hyperplasia and hypertrophy Due to the different scope of fat atrophy, it can be divided into localized lipodystrophy (Simons disease or head and chest lipodystrophy) and systemic lipodystrophy (Seip-Laurence syndrome).

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