The Impact of Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity on Perioperative Total Joint Arthroplasty Outcomes: The Obesity Paradox and Risk Assessment in Total Joint Arthroplasty

BACKGROUND: The relationship between elevated body mass index (BMI) and adverse outcomes in joint arthroplasty is well established in the literature. This paper aims to challenge the conventional thought of excluding patients from a total knee or hip replacement based on BMI alone. Instead, we propo...

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Autores principales: Kotzur, Travis, Singh, Aaron, Vivancos Koopman, Irene, Armstrong, Connor, Brady, Nicholas, Moore, Chance
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10160687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37151404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2023.101139

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