Obesity shouldn't be considered a barrier for a patient who needs shoulder replacement surgery, a new study argues.
In some places, doctors have been denying joint replacement surgery to people with a high body-mass index, due to concerns over their ability to recover from the procedure, researchers said in background notes.
But patients with obesity actually have a lower risk of death following the surgery than patients at a healthy weight, researchers reported Thursday in the journal PLOS Medicine.
They also had about the same risk of suffering serious complications or needing follow-up surgery, researchers found.
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