Knee replacement tough on minority groups

“Black and Hispanic patients experience higher complication rates after total knee arthroplasty, but not after hip arthroplasty, according to a study in which doctors compared the rate of medical and surgical complications and death rates between a group of white, black, and Hispanic adults who had knee or hip arthroplasty between 1996 and 2000.

More than 90 percent of the patients of each racial/ethnic group experienced no complications within 30 days of either type of arthroplasty, the authors report in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism.”

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