HIP IMPLANT FAILURE 29% HIGHER FOR WOMEN (Orthopedics This Week)
The failure rates for hip implants are 29% higher for women than they are for men, wrote John Gever, senior editor of MedPage Today. Gever was reporting on a study done by the Southern California Permanente Research Group in San Diego that examined the records of 35,140 patients and followed them for a mean of three years. The all-case rate of failure, involving subsequent revision surgery, was 2.3% for women and 1.9% for men, reported Maria C.S. Inacio, a member of the research group.
Gever wrote that after adjustments were made...
