Renal insufficiency plays a crucial association factor in severe knee osteoarthritis-induced pain in patients with total knee replacement: A retrospective study

Pain, the main symptom of osteoarthritis (OA), can lead to functional disability in patients with knee OA. Understanding the association factors related to knee pain is important since preventing OA-induced disabilities can be achieved by modifying these pain-associated issues. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate the association factors for OA-induced knee pain in Taiwanese patients who received total knee replacements (TKR). In this retrospective study, 357 subjects who had undergone TKR at the Taipei Municipal Wan-Fang Hospital were recruited. The distribution of pain severity among patients with knee OA was evaluated. Demographic data and clinical parameters were analyzed to determine relationships between these variables and the severity of knee OA pain. Of the 357 patients studied, 54% and 33% had moderate and severe knee pain, respectively. Furthermore, a multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that serum creatinine (>1.5 mg/dL) and an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (
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