Total hip arthroplasty is a common and important treatment for osteoarthritis patients. Long-term cardiovascular effects elicited by osteoarthritis or the implant itself remain unknown. The purpose of the present study was to determine if there is an increased risk of late cardiovascular mortality and morbidity after total hip arthroplasty surgery.A nationwide matched cohort study with data on ...

BACKGROUND Broad dissection with a long skin incision and detachment of the gluteus medius muscle performed for rotational acetabular osteotomy (RAO) can result in weakness in abduction strength of the hip. We use a surgical procedure for RAO that minimizes operative invasion of soft tissue and reduces incision length compared with conventional procedures. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We evaluated the ...

OBJECTIVE Body mass index (BMI) and knee osteoarthritis have a strong association, but other anthropometric measures lack such associations. To date, no study has evaluated non-obese knee osteoarthritis to negate the systemic and metabolic effects of obesity. This study examines the validity of the contention that BMI and other anthropometric measures have a significant relationship with knee o...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of glucosamine sulfate as a symptom and disease modifier for osteoarthritis is still under debate. OBJECTIVE To assess whether glucosamine sulfate has an effect on the symptoms and structural progression of hip osteoarthritis during 2 years of treatment. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Primary care in the Netherlands. PATIENTS 222 patients with ...

Background and purpose - Assessment of potential disparities in access to care is a vital part of achieving equity in health and healthcare. We have therefore studied the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the rates of knee and hip replacement due to osteoarthritis. Methods - This was a cohort study in Skåne, Sweden. We included all residents aged ≥ 35 years with consultations between 2004...

OBJECTIVE The ArtRoCad study analyzes healthcare resource utilization and the socioeconomic impact of knee and hip osteoarthritis in primary care in Spain. The present study describes the methodology of the ArtRoCad study and presents the main characteristics of the population included. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study of ambulatory patients in primary care, aged ≥ 50 years old, w...

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to investigate the factors associated with the level of knee pain in a nationally representative sample of noninstitutionalized women aged 50 years or older. METHODS Women aged 50 years or older were selected and included in the data analyses from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (2010-2013). Those having malignant diseases or usi...

BACKGROUND Although intra-articular hyaluronic acid is well established as a treatment for osteoarthritis of the knee, its use in hip osteoarthritis is not based on large randomized controlled trials. There is a need for more rigorously designed studies on hip osteoarthritis treatment as this subject is still very much under debate. METHODS/DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial with a three-arm...

Background: Hip osteoarthritis- a painful oftentimes longstanding progressively disabling condition that occurs predominantly among sizeable numbers of older adults may be detrimentally impacted by an atrophic muscle known as sarcopenia. Aim: This mini review examines the possible utility electrical or magnetic stimulation for mitigating sarcopenic mass declines age disease associated both diag...

Hip Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease among the middle-aged and elderly people. Conventionally, hip OA is diagnosed by manually assessing X-ray images. This study took the hip joint as the object of observation and explored the diagnostic value of deep learning in hip osteoarthritis. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained and tested on 420 hip X-ray images to automatically ...