The Diagnosis and Management of Lipodystrophy Syndromes: A Multi-Society Practice Guideline

Rebecca J Brown¹, David Araujo-Vilar¹, Pik To Cheung¹+14

• ¹National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R.J.B., K.I.R.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; Department of Medicine (D.A.-V.), University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (P.T.C.), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Department of Paediatrics (D.D.), University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom; Metabolic Research Laboratories Wellcome Trust (D.D.), Medical Research Council (MRC) Institute of Metabolic Science, National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom; Division of Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases (A.G.), Department of Internal Medicine and the Center for Human Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390; Royal North Shore Hospital (M.J.), Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, St Leonards, NSW 2126, Australia; Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (L.M.), University of Nairobi, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya; Brehm Center for Diabetes and Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes (E.A.O.), Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; Division of Pediatric Endocrinology (N.P.), Department of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390; Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (J.v.S., M.W.), Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Ulm, 89075 Ulm, Germany; Clamp Technologies Laboratory (E.S.), Endocrinology Research Center, and Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology of Medical Scientific Educational Centre of Lomonosov, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia; Pediatric Endocrine Unit and Program in Nutritional Metabolism (T.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; Sorbonne Universities (C.V.), l'université Pierre et Marie Curie, University of Paris VI, Inserm Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé 938, St-Antoine Research Center, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, St-Antoine Hospital, Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, 75012 Paris, France; Department of Paediatric Endocrinology (R.W.), Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom; and Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (T.Y.), Children's Medical Center, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka City 534-0021, Japan.