Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Quality of life, its factors, and sociodemographic characteristics of Polish women with lipedema
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Date: 
29 Sep 2020
Reviewer's report:
This is an interesting report of lipedema patients in Poland.The data has no control comparator patients
and no statistical anlaysis.Data on socioeconomic status is selfreported and since we are not told what the
average polish female population could be expected to exhibit, it is difficult to learn anything from such a
descriptive study.There is no novel data about the condition apart from the fact the study was done in
Poland.
I would recommend obtaining a control population of age matched women 
or obtain population census
data for comparison.How did the Quality of Life and depression scores compare for age matched Polish
women?
It is difficult to judge any findings or comment on them without a control population or data.
There are difficulties with self assessment of socioeconomic status and it would have been better to ask
"annual average income" figures which could then be compared to average Polish Figures.Since all
patients were on Facebook,does this reflect a selection bias,something not discussed by the authors.
Questions about whether the patients had tried any self management or even knew best management would
have been interesting as well.
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