Thursday, February 9, 2012

Obesity boosts risk of joint replacement

(Reuters) UPDATED 2009-03-05
Researchers in Australia have found that people who are obese and who also suffer from osteoarthritis (OA) are nearly three times more likely to need a hip or knee replacement later in life than people of normal weight. For their study, scientists recruited over 39,000 people in Melbourne between 1990 and 1994 and monitored them over 15 years. Almost all the participants were aged 40 to 69 years old. Investigators found that those who were obese were nearly three times more likely to require joint replacement compared to people whose body mass index in the normal range. The study also showed that women with the most fat mass were 2.5 times more likely to undergo joint replacement compared with people with the least fat mass.  Read full story >
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