BMJ-British Medical Journal
No justification for denying obese patients knee replacements
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 4th, 2008
Around 55,000 knee replacements are performed every year in England to relieve the pain and disability of knee osteoarthritis.
But in some parts of the country the surgery is offered only to patients who are not clinically obese (body mass index (BMI) below 30 kg/m2), on the grounds that obesity is itself a risk factor for knee osteoarthritis.
The research team monitored the progress of 325 people over...
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