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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">36</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2021.1702</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Orthopaedics</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>The Impact of Obesity on Total Knee Replacement&#13;
</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Hasan</surname>
            <given-names>Syed</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alhazmi</surname>
            <given-names>Hatim</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alrehaili</surname>
            <given-names>Muaath</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Tamim</surname>
            <given-names>Husam</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname/>
            <given-names/>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Almohammadi</surname>
            <given-names>Marwan</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Owaidah</surname>
            <given-names>Omar</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>-0001</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <fpage>166</fpage>
      <lpage>172</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Worldwide estimates indicate the high prevalence of obesity and overweight, and some countries even consider it a pandemic. Obesity is correlated with many disorders like hypertension, diabetes, osteoarthrosis of the knee, and coronary artery disease. Many investigations have been published to study the impact of and correlation between obesity and total knee arthroplasty procedures. Evidence is contradicting regarding the perioperative outcomes in these patients. In the present study, we have conducted a literature review to elaborate on the effects of obesity on total knee arthroplasty. Obesity can be considered as the single modifiable risk factor for performing osteoarthritis-induced total knee arthroplasty. Evidence regarding the effect of obesity on the perioperative outcomes and revision approach following a total knee arthroplasty contradicts as many studies reported that the impact is not significant while others indicated the opposite. According to the various risks that obesity poses on the patients’ general condition and the potential adverse impact on the outcomes of the surgery, we recommended that weight gain should be conducted before the patient has been indicated to perform the surgery, which was also validated by previous investigations. However, evidence regarding this is still scarce in the current literature and further investigations are needed.&#13;
</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>obesity</kwd>
        <kwd> total knee replacement</kwd>
        <kwd> management</kwd>
        <kwd> complications</kwd>
        <kwd> osteoarthritis</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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