- Overweight and Obese Patients Require Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty at a Younger Age
- Obese patients generally did not attain the same level of physical function by the follow-up time point
- Surgeons should anticipate increased failure rates and poorer outcomes
- Longer hospital stays and higher implant cost
- Impact of obesity on postoperative complications is more profound for THA than TKA
- Overweight or obese is associated with increased risk of development of PE but not DVT after primary THA or TKA.
- BMI increases the risk of revision rates in a liner trend
Patients with a BMI >40 kg/m2 should be sent to obesity medicine physicians in order to decrease the body weight prior elective surgery