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Heavy lifting linked to joint replacement

Heavy lifting in the workplace has been linked to the incidence of total knee replacement and total hip replacement in people suffering from osteoarthritis.

However, according to a new study published in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy, the increase in likelihood of patients in jobs that involve heavy lifting undergoing total knee and total hip replacement does not affect women.

"For women there was no increased risk for any occupation," the researchers said.

"Farming and fishing were also the occupations that showed the greatest degree of inheritance," they added.

The research showed that in male farmers in Iceland with osteoarthritis, the increase in likelihood they would undergo total knee replacement stood at 5.1 per cent and for fishing it was 3.3 per cent.

Recent research published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed that the benefits of gender-specific components were negligible when compared to standard knee replacement devices.

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