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As such, these are also popular sites for women to get liposuction. Tummy tucks rank a close second. The so-called Brazilian butt lift combines the two and makes it worse, typically by sucking fat out of women’s stomach deposits and reinjecting that same fat into their buttocks. That’s particularly risky because women’s buttocks are especially full of blood vessels, which is precisely where you don’t want to inject a bunch of lipids, risking a fatty embolism, wherein fat breaks into the bloodstream, migrates to somewhere really vital like the heart or lungs or brain, and causes a blockage.
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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