An article in the in the December issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism reported that Medicare beneficiaries living in rural areas were 27 percent more likely than urban recipients to have total knee or hip replacement surgeries, according to a release by Wiley, which publishes the journal.
The study also found that women were more likely to have total joint replacement surgeries than men.
However, men with arthritis choose joint replacement more often than women with arthritis, a statistic that is explained by lower rates of arthritis for men.
Read Wiley’s release on joint replacement surgery rates.
