Economic burden of knee and hip osteoarthritis in spain
✍ Scribed by Loza, Estibaliz ;Lopez-Gomez, Juan Miguel ;Abasolo, Lydia ;Maese, Jesús ;Carmona, Loreto ;Batlle-Gualda, Enrique ;,
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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## Abstract ## Objective To compare the hospital inpatient costs between nonobese and obese patients and estimate the economic burden of obesity in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). ## Methods A cost identification study was conducted in a consecutive cohort of 530 patients who underwent TK
A recent study of skeletons from Saxon and Medieval England has shown that in the past tibiofemoral osteoarthritis was far less prevalent than hip osteoarthritis, whereas at present this situation is reversed. This observation suggests that tibiofemoral osteoarthritis may be a `new' disease. Obesity