{"id":39685,"date":"2013-11-01T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39685"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T17:44:20","slug":"hip-and-knee-replacements-associated-with-lower-cv-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/11\/01\/hip-and-knee-replacements-associated-with-lower-cv-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip and Knee Replacements Associated with Lower CV Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total joint arthroplasty was associated with reduced cardiovascular risk among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/347\/bmj.f6187?etoc=\">a <em>BMJ<\/em> study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Canada matched roughly 150 people aged 55 or older with moderate-to-severe knee or hip osteoarthritis who underwent total joint replacement to people with osteoarthritis who did not have surgery.<\/p>\n<p>People who underwent arthroplasty were less likely to have a serious cardiovascular event during 7 years&#8217; follow-up, compared with those who did not have surgery (hazard ratio, 0.56). The authors estimate that the number needed to treat to prevent one cardiovascular event was 8.<\/p>\n<p>The authors offer several potential explanations for the surgery&#8217;s observed cardiovascular benefit, including improvements in exercise capability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total joint arthroplasty was associated with reduced cardiovascular risk among patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis in a BMJ study. Researchers in Canada matched roughly 150 people aged 55 or older with moderate-to-severe knee or hip osteoarthritis who underwent total joint replacement to people with osteoarthritis who did not have surgery. People who underwent arthroplasty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[329,1369,1370],"class_list":["post-39685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cardiovascular-risk","tag-total-hip-replacement","tag-total-knee-replacement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}