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TABLE 2.

Disease‐specific quality of life (QoL) before and after liposuction treatment in lipoedema patients

		Liposuction (mean ± SD)
	N	Before	After	P
Subscales
Physical complaints	20	4.2 ± 0.4	2.9 ± 1.0	<.001 ^a
Daily life	20	4.2 ± 2.8	2.8 ± 1.1	<.001 ^a
Social life	20	4.3 ± 0.4	2.8 ± 1.1	<.001 ^a
Emotional well‐being	20	4.1 ± 0.5	3.0 ± 1.0	<.001 ^a
Therapy of lymphatic disorder	13	4.1 ± 0.5	3.1 ± 1.2	.003 ^a
Global score	20	4.2 ± 0.4	2.9 ± 1.0	<.001 ^a
Generic QoL
General health status	20	4.4 ± 1.7	6.9 ± 1.7	<.001 ^b
Lymphatic disease health status	20	3.5 ± 1.4	6.2 ± 1.8	<.001 ^a
QoL	20	3.7 ± 1.4	6.6 ± 1.5	<.001 ^b

^{^a}

t‐test.

^{^b}

Wilcoxon signed‐rank test.