Open AccessWeighing in on Body Mass Index and Infection After Total Joint Arthroplasty: Is There Evidence for a Body Mass Index Threshold?
Author(s) -
Noam Shohat,
Andrew N. Fleischman,
Majd Tarabichi,
Timothy L. Tan,
Javad Parvızı
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999.0000000000000141
Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , underweight , overweight , logistic regression , obesity , retrospective cohort study , periprosthetic , risk factor , receiver operating characteristic , arthroplasty , surgery
Although morbid obesity is considered a modifiable risk factor for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), there is no consensus regarding an appropriate threshold for body mass index (BMI) above which a high risk for infection may outweigh the benefits of surgery.