Abstracts tagged "African-Americans and total joint replacement"

Abstract Number: 796 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
African American Adults Less Willing to Undergo Joint Replacement Surgery: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study
Julie J. Keysor¹, Huan J. Chang², Tianzhong Yang³, Cora E. Lewis⁴, James Torner⁵, Michael C. Nevitt⁶ and David T. Felson⁷, ¹Physical Therapy, Boston University Sargent College, Boston, MA, ²The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL, ³Clinical Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁴Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, ⁶Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF (University of California, San Francisco), San Francisco, CA, ⁷Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: “Willingness” to undergo joint replacement surgery (JRS) is predictive of subsequent JRS among community-dwelling older adults and could, at least in part, explain the…