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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity is a well-established risk factor for total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and a number of complications including prosthetic joint infection. The annual changes in the prevalence of obesity among primary, revision, and infected TJA has not been studied at a national level. Given the higher costs of complications of TJA, it is important to understand the association of obesity with the annual trends of revision and infected TJA.

Questions/purposes

(1) Is the prevalence of obesity increasing among patients undergoing THA/TKA? (2) Is the prevalence of obesity increasing among patients undergoing revision THA/TKA? (3) Is the prevalence of obesity increasing among patients with infected THA/TKA?

Methods

Annual volumes of primary, revision, and infected THA an

SUBMITTER: George J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5449322 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature