Here are four insights:
1. The researchers reviewed more than 4,000 titles, 106 abstracts and 24 papers.
2. They identifying four studies based on which they could analyze knee replacement revision rates based on race.
3. The study found that black people had a 38 percent higher risk of revision surgery than white people.
4. “We know that blacks are less likely to undergo knee replacement surgery than whites, which could be due to a perception that they’re at increased risk of complications,” said senior study author Anne R. Bass, MD, an associate attending physician and program director of the Hospital for Special Surgery’s Rheumatology Fellowship Program.
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