Male sex, older age (60 years and older), and any abnormal category of BMI (including BMI <18.5 and ≥40 kg/m 2) were also independent risk factors (hazard ratios, 1.31, 1.97, 2.42, and 4.03 ...

aged between 40-to-80-years, split roughly equally between men and women. Of this group, 38 per cent and 41 per cent of women had a BMI of 30 or more, obese under the current rules. However ...

Women had more than twice the relative risk of later total-hip arthroplasty compared with men, after adjusting for confounding factors, including age and BMI. Men and women who were obese (BMI ≥ ...