Knee Problems Of The Super-obese
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 13:29
in Health & Medicine
The knee joint is especially vulnerable to injury in both healthy-weight active people and those who are overweight. But until now, no one had published results of what happens to knee implants under the stress of extreme extra weight known as superobesity. Superobesity is defined as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) that is greater than 50. Normal-weight BMI ranges from 19 to 25.