Can anaemia increase the risk of patients requiring hip replacement surgery?

A new study from the Netherlands has found that anaemia can increase the risks of elderly patients experiencing falls that may require hip replacement operations to correct.

Research lead by Wendy den Elzen, from the Leiden University Medical Centre, has found that those experiencing the condition are at an increased risk of death.

She suggests that elderly people with anaemia are at a higher risk of falling and sustaining fractures that could require hip replacement operations to treat.

Out of prevalent and incident anaemia, the study concluded that the former had a larger effect on a patient's quality of life.

When adjusted for other illnesses, the findings did not have an affect on cognitive and physical ability, which the authors suggest means that its impact is largely caused by co-morbidity.

In other news, research published in Radiology has claimed that weight can lead to an increased risk of a patient experiencing an injury requiring joint replacement to treat.

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