Frequency of Weight Loss Instruction for Osteoarthritis

Raw data that was pulled from secure storage site (REDCap) and has been de-identified. Associated with the manuscript "Frequency of Weight Loss Instruction Provision to Patients with Obesity and Hip or Knee Osteoarthritis: a Case-Series". Please see the methods of this manuscript to understand the data acquisition and analysis processes used. Our data from a single tertiary medical center demonstrates that for obese patients being managed conservatively for knee or hip osteoarthritis, they are offered weight loss methods significantly less than other methods, including pharmacotherapy and physical therapy. When patients were further stratified by BMI, we found that patients in the highest BMI subgroup (>40 kg/m2) were instructed on weight reduction methods at a significantly higher rate than other patients. Overall, our data demonstrates that weight loss often isn't offered to obese patients as a part of comprehensive conservative care of knee or hip osteoarthritis, but that the frequency of weight loss instruction improves in patients with more severe obesity. This highlights a need to identify barriers to the delivery and implementation of weight loss instruction to obese patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis.

原始数据源自安全存储站点（REDCap），并已脱敏处理。该数据与论文《肥胖患者髋或膝关节骨关节炎体重减轻指导频次：一项病例系列研究》相关联。欲了解数据采集与分析过程，请参阅该论文的方法部分。我们的数据来自单一的三级医疗机构，表明在保守治疗膝或髋关节骨关节炎的肥胖患者中，所提供的体重减轻方法显著低于其他方法，包括药物治疗和物理治疗。当患者进一步按照BMI分层时，我们发现BMI最高的亚组（>40 kg/m²）的患者在体重减轻方法指导方面的比率显著高于其他患者。总体而言，我们的数据显示，体重减轻往往不是作为膝或髋关节骨关节炎综合保守治疗的一部分提供给肥胖患者，但随着肥胖程度的加剧，体重减轻指导的频率有所提高。这突显了识别肥胖患者髋或膝关节骨关节炎体重减轻指导实施与执行障碍的必要性。