Obesity Does Not Imply Poor Outcomes in Asians after Total Knee Arthroplasty

Hamid Rahmatullah Bin Abd Razak, Hwei Chi Chong, Andrew Hwee Chye Tan

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 2012 · 48 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

BMI had little clinical impact on short-term outcomes of conventional TKAs in Asian patients. The data suggest that BMI should not be used as a major determinant to exclude obese patients from surgery with the presumption of poorer outcomes.

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