Obesity and the Relative Risk of Knee Replacement Surgery in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Cohort Study
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- 作者：Kirsten M. Leyland ; Andrew Judge ; M. Kassim Javaid ; Adolfo Diez-Perez ; Andrew Carr ; Cyrus Cooper ; Nigel K. Arden and Daniel Prieto-Alhambra
- 刊名：Arthritis & Rheumatism
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：April 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：68
- 期：4
- 页码：817-825
- 全文大小：479K
- ISSN：1529-0131
文摘
It is unclear what impact obesity has on the progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from diagnosis to knee replacement surgery. This study was undertaken to examine the relative risk of knee replacement surgery in overweight and obese patients who were newly diagnosed as having knee OA in a community setting.