The role of obesity in development of the arthritic knee

In the introduction defines the problem of treatment of the arthritic knee on the background of the patient's overweightThe purpose of the study was to analyze the role of obesity in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee joint, which is performed by total arthroplasty.A retrospective study of the case 2482 patients was carried out, with which total knee arthroplasty was performed. women were 1968 (79,29%), men were 514 (20,71%). All patients on admission were weighed and the growth was measured, which was recorded in the database, where the body mass index was automatically calculated according to the formula BMI = weight (kg) / height2 (m). Parameters were entered in the database, formed before the beginning of the study and conducted a statistical analysis of the database.The distribution of age in men is monomodal with median = 63 years, in women the distribution is multimodal: two peaks are 65 and 74 years, while the peak at 65 years is more pronounced (p-value = 1,417)...