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Orthopedic surgery benefits women in cases of advanced osteoarthritis of the knee, but it is not yet offered to them as much as it should be, and less often than to men.
A procedure on the rise… but much more among men than among women, although they are more often affected. According to statistics from the National Health Data System (SNDS), between 2009 and 2019 the installation of total knee prostheses (TKA) increased by 73% among men (82% among those under 65) compared to 46% among women (53% among those under 65). On average twice as often affected as men by knee osteoarthritis, women benefit from only 63% of the prostheses fitted each year.
Should we see an inequality linked to gender? The question is debated in rheumatology, and was the subject of a presentation at the Congress of the French Society for the Study and Treatment of Pain last December. There have only been two early international studies on this subject. A Canadian study from 2008 showed that in cases of advanced knee osteoarthritis, pain, age and comorbidities…
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