The Importance of Weight Loss in Morbidly Obese Patients before Knee Surgery
Obesity is undoubtedly one of the biggest epidemics sweeping the United States today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that “as of 2016 the prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 million US adults.”1 There is often an important connection between morbid obesity and osteoarthritis which frequently leads to the need