OBESITY DRIVING KNEE REPLACEMENTS OVER HIPS (Orthopedics This Week)
More knees are being replaced in the U.S. than are hips and Peter B. Derman, M.D., MBA, an orthopedic surgery resident at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, wondered why. So he conducted a study and found that the increase in the number of overweight and obese people in the United States accounted for 95% of the higher demand for knee replacements.
Derman and his colleagues reviewed ten years of data on knee and hip replacements including the patients’ length of hospital stay, hospital mortality and workforce trend...
