The Effect of Total Knee Arthroplasty on Body Mass Index—A Prospective Study
| Autor: | Manickam Rathinam, McNicholas Michael James, Attar Fahad Gulam, Raheel Shariff, Olwyn Wainwright |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
total knee arthroplasty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Rehabilitation Total knee arthroplasty Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation body mass index Osteoarthritis Perioperative medicine.disease Arthroplasty Surgery lcsh:RD701-811 Knee pain lcsh:Orthopedic surgery medicine Physical therapy Orthopedics and Sports Medicine medicine.symptom Prospective cohort study business Weight gain Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, Vol 15, Iss 2, Pp 51-52 (2011) |
| ISSN: | 2210-4917 |
| Popis: | Background/Purposes Osteoarthritic patients, who need a total knee arthroplasty, usually complain of knee pain as the major reason to forbid them from exercising to lose weight. Weight gain, in turn, worsens the process of osteoarthritis as a vicious cycle. In our prospective study, we calculated the preoperative and 1-year postoperative body mass index (BMI) after total knee replacement. Materials and Methods We prospectively followed up 91 patients in the knee arthroplasty clinic. Height, preoperative weight, and postoperative weight at 12 months were measured, and the pre- and postoperative BMIs were calculated. All the perioperative factors of the patients were without any major change. Results The mean preoperative BMI was 31.08, and at 12-month followup, the mean BMI was 30.11. This difference was not statistically significant. Conclusion The results obtained in our study suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the pre- and postoperative BMIs at 1-year follow-up. |
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