The fracture risk study was based on analysis of medical records from 1987 to 2002 in Sweden.
Here are three insights:
1. A total of 3,221 patients had both total knee replacement and hip fracture.
2. The study found that after total knee replacement, the risk for hip fracture increased by 4 percent and the risk for vertebral fracture increased by 19 percent compared to the population without TKR.
3. The hazard ratio for patients with knee osteoarthritis to have sustained a hip fracture during the 10 years preceding TKR was 0.58 and during the 10 years after the surgery 1.04.
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