Being fat increases the risk of primary joint replacement in osteoarthritis (OA). A new study found that increased waist circumference and body mass index (BMI) were associated with the risk of both knee and hip joint replacement.
Total joint replacement is an effective treatment for severe knee and hip OA, and obesity is recognized as being the most important modifiable risk factor for OA. BMI is the most commonly used measurement of obesity but does not account for the pattern of fat distribution, and cannot discriminate between adipose and non-adipose tissue.
Being Overweight Worsens Osteoarthritis
I think being overweight worsens and even creates ailments.
I remember gaining a whopping fifty pounds pregnancy weight; I could barely move, breathe and rapidly broke into a sweat. Thankfully, it was temporary!
@Keli - definitely obesity worsens and creates ailments! Look at knee replacements, it use to be an operation done on an older person, now we have 40 year olds needing the surgery due to a lifetime of obesity. It’s not just our country either, Canada, the UK all have seen dramatic increases in these operations as obesity climbs. It’s not an easy surgery to recover from either, wound healing can take longer in the obese with more complications. I could go on and on but I imagine my readers get tired of hearing me harp on obesity. It’s SO much easier not to get obese than it is being obese and taking the weight off.
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