A new study has highlighted the fact that overweight men are at increased risk of hip problems, although overweight women do not seem to suffer to the same extent.
A study in the journal Annals of Rheumatic Diseases found that obese men were 70 per cent more likely to have had hip replacement surgery than normal-weight men.
The research, which involved 1,473 people who had undergone hip or knee replacement and a further 1,103 who had not, also found that obese men were five times more likely to have undergone knee replacement surgery than normal-weight men.
However, while overweight women were also four times more likely to have undergone knee replacement surgery than normal-weight women, women who were overweight were not more likely to have had a hip replacement.
"The study supports a positive association between high BMI and total knee replacement in both sexes, but for total hip replacement the association with BMI seems to be weaker, and possibly negligible, for women," the study authors wrote.
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A new study has highlighted the fact that overweight men are at increased risk of hip problems, although overweight women do not seem to suffer to the same extent.
