OBJECTIVE: To find out the prevalence and relation between osteoarthritis of knees and obesity in Al-Ahsa region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: The study included 243 male and female patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of knees between June 2001 to March 2003. All patients were recruited from the Physical Therapy Department, King Fahd Hofuf Hospital, Hofuf, KSA. The clinical diagnosis was supported by plain x-rays of knees, and of other joint if needed. The weight and height of all patients were taken using one standard weight and height scale, and body mass index was also calculated and recorded. RESULTS: More than 90.53% of the patients referred with osteoarthritis of the knees were obese or overweight. The mean body weight of all patients was 84.61 kg and the mean height was 1.59 meters. Osteoarthritis of the knees was more common in obese female than male patients with a female to male ratio of 2.37:1. CONCLUSION: Obesity is a disease. The aim of all health professionals and others in the community should be directed to the prevention of this disease and its risk to develop multiple complications.
OBJECTIVE: To find out the prevalence and relation between osteoarthritis of knees and obesity in Al-Ahsa region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: The study included 243 male and female patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of knees between June 2001 to March 2003. All patients were recruited from the Physical Therapy Department, King Fahd Hofuf Hospital, Hofuf, KSA. The clinical diagnosis was supported by plain x-rays of knees, and of other joint if needed. The weight and height of all patients were taken using one standard weight and height scale, and body mass index was also calculated and recorded. RESULTS: More than 90.53% of the patients referred with osteoarthritis of the knees were obese or overweight. The mean body weight of all patients was 84.61 kg and the mean height was 1.59 meters. Osteoarthritis of the knees was more common in obese female than male patients with a female to male ratio of 2.37:1. CONCLUSION:Obesity is a disease. The aim of all health professionals and others in the community should be directed to the prevention of this disease and its risk to develop multiple complications.
Authors: Maziar Moradi-Lakeh; Mohammad H Forouzanfar; Stein Emil Vollset; Charbel El Bcheraoui; Farah Daoud; Ashkan Afshin; Raghid Charara; Ibrahim Khalil; Hideki Higashi; Mohamed Magdy Abd El Razek; Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri; Khurshid Alam; Nadia Akseer; Nawal Al-Hamad; Raghib Ali; Mohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroa; Mahmoud A Alomari; Abdullah A Al-Rabeeah; Ubai Alsharif; Khalid A Altirkawi; Suleman Atique; Alaa Badawi; Lope H Barrero; Mohammed Basulaiman; Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi; Neeraj Bedi; Isabela M Bensenor; Rachelle Buchbinder; Hadi Danawi; Samath D Dharmaratne; Faiez Zannad; Maryam S Farvid; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Farshad Farzadfar; Florian Fischer; Rahul Gupta; Randah Ribhi Hamadeh; Samer Hamidi; Masako Horino; Damian G Hoy; Mohamed Hsairi; Abdullatif Husseini; Mehdi Javanbakht; Jost B Jonas; Amir Kasaeian; Ejaz Ahmad Khan; Jagdish Khubchandani; Ann Kristin Knudsen; Jacek A Kopec; Raimundas Lunevicius; Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek; Azeem Majeed; Reza Malekzadeh; Kedar Mate; Alem Mehari; Michele Meltzer; Ziad A Memish; Mojde Mirarefin; Shafiu Mohammed; Aliya Naheed; Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer; In-Hwan Oh; Eun-Kee Park; Emmanuel Kwame Peprah; Farshad Pourmalek; Mostafa Qorbani; Anwar Rafay; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar; Rahman Shiri; Sajjad Ur Rahman; Rajesh Kumar Rai; Saleem M Rana; Sadaf G Sepanlou; Masood Ali Shaikh; Ivy Shiue; Abla Mehio Sibai; Diego Augusto Santos Silva; Jasvinder A Singh; Jens Christoffer Skogen; Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi; Kingsley N Ukwaja; Ronny Westerman; Naohiro Yonemoto; Seok-Jun Yoon; Mustafa Z Younis; Zoubida Zaidi; Maysaa El Sayed Zaki; Stephen S Lim; Haidong Wang; Theo Vos; Mohsen Naghavi; Alan D Lopez; Christopher J L Murray; Ali H Mokdad Journal: Ann Rheum Dis Date: 2017-02-16 Impact factor: 19.103