Although obese patients undergoing hip arthroscopy started with lower absolute scores preoperatively and ended with lower overall absolute postoperative scores, they showed substantial benefit from surgery, demonstrating a degree of improvement similar to non-obese patients, according to study results.
Researchers assessed 680 patients undergoing primary hip arthroscopy preoperatively and postoperatively with four patient-reported outcome measures. The researchers estimated pain on the VAS and measured patient satisfaction scores. Five hundred sixty-two patients with a BMI of less than 30 kg/m2 were included in the non-obese group; 94 patients with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 to 34.9 kg/m2 were included in the class-I obese group; and 24 patients with a BMI of 35 kg/m2 to 39.9 kg/m2 were included in the class-II obese group.
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