Obesity Epidemic: Is Its Impact on Total Joint Arthroplasty Underestimated? An Analysis of National Trends.

CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of obesity has increased in patients undergoing primary, revision, and infected TJA in United States. The obesity epidemic appears to be related to the growing trends of revision and infection after TJA. With the obesity rates expected to grow further, the revision and infection burden associated with obesity may increase in the future. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, prognostic study. PMID: 28054327 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - January 3, 2017 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: George J, Klika AK, Navale SM, Newman JM, Barsoum WK, Higuera CA Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research