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==Overview==
==Overview==
 
Lipoma [[incidence]] is 100 per 100,000 individuals worldwide annually. Lipoma tend to affect middle age individuals, especially those of 40 to 60 years of age. It affects men at a greater extent than women.
==Epidemiology and Demographics==
==Epidemiology and Demographics==
* Approximately one percent of the general population has a lipoma.<ref name=emedicine2720>{{EMedicine|med|2720|Lipomas}}</ref>
===Incidence===
* These tumors can occur at any age, but are most common in middle age, often appearing in people from 40 to 60 years old.<ref name=Salam>{{cite journal |author=Salam GA |title=Lipoma excision |journal=Am Fam Physician |volume=65 |issue=5 |pages=901–4 |date=March 2002 |pmid=11898962 |url=http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020301/901.html}}</ref>  
* Lipoma [[incidence]] is 100 per 100,000 individuals worldwide annually.<ref name="pmid6670522">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rydholm A, Berg NO |title=Size, site and clinical incidence of lipoma. Factors in the differential diagnosis of lipoma and sarcoma |journal=Acta Orthop Scand |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=929–34 |date=December 1983 |pmid=6670522 |doi=10.3109/17453678308992936 |url=}}</ref>
* Cutaneous lipomas are rare in children, but these tumors can occur as part of the inherited disease [[Bannayan-Zonana syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Buisson P, Leclair MD, Jacquemont S, ''et al.'' |title=Cutaneous lipoma in children: 5 cases with Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba syndrome |journal=J. Pediatr. Surg. |volume=41 |issue=9 |pages=1601–3 |date=September 2006 |pmid=16952599 |doi=10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.05.013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Gujrati M, Thomas C, Zelby A, Jensen E, Lee JM |title=Bannayan-Zonana syndrome: a rare autosomal dominant syndrome with multiple lipomas and hemangiomas: a case report and review of literature |journal=Surg Neurol |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=164–8 |date=August 1998 |pmid=9701122 |doi= 10.1016/S0090-3019(98)00039-1|url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0090-3019(98)00039-1}}</ref>
===Prevalence===
* There is no available data on the [[prevalence]] of lipoma.
===Age===
* Lipoma tend to affect middle age individuals, especially those of 40 to 60 years of age.<ref name="Salam">{{cite journal |author=Salam GA |title=Lipoma excision |journal=Am Fam Physician |volume=65 |issue=5 |pages=901–4 |date=March 2002 |pmid=11898962 |url=http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020301/901.html}}</ref>


=== Gender ===
* Lipoma affects men at a greater extent than women.<ref name="pmid6670522">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rydholm A, Berg NO |title=Size, site and clinical incidence of lipoma. Factors in the differential diagnosis of lipoma and sarcoma |journal=Acta Orthop Scand |volume=54 |issue=6 |pages=929–34 |date=December 1983 |pmid=6670522 |doi=10.3109/17453678308992936 |url=}}</ref>
=== Race ===
* Lipoma develops in all races equally.
==References==
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sahar Memar Montazerin, M.D.[2]

Overview

Lipoma incidence is 100 per 100,000 individuals worldwide annually. Lipoma tend to affect middle age individuals, especially those of 40 to 60 years of age. It affects men at a greater extent than women.

Epidemiology and Demographics

Incidence

  • Lipoma incidence is 100 per 100,000 individuals worldwide annually.[1]

Prevalence

  • There is no available data on the prevalence of lipoma.

Age

  • Lipoma tend to affect middle age individuals, especially those of 40 to 60 years of age.[2]

Gender

  • Lipoma affects men at a greater extent than women.[1]

Race

  • Lipoma develops in all races equally.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Rydholm A, Berg NO (December 1983). "Size, site and clinical incidence of lipoma. Factors in the differential diagnosis of lipoma and sarcoma". Acta Orthop Scand. 54 (6): 929–34. doi:10.3109/17453678308992936. PMID 6670522.
  2. Salam GA (March 2002). "Lipoma excision". Am Fam Physician. 65 (5): 901–4. PMID 11898962.


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