While trying to find some recently news about Osteoarthritis, I found out something that was honestly pretty shocking.  I mean, common sense would tell you that this would be true, but a somewhat recent study disproves it and says it makes no difference.

What am I talking about?  I’m talking about weight loss and knee OA.  Yeah, see, it’s pretty surprising.  I should clarify what the study proved first, because I think people may take the initial statement the wrong way.  The was whether or not if weight loss would prevent the progression of osteoarthritis in knees.

Over 2600 hundred obese or overweight people were studied.  Patients were examined, had x-rays, and had a hip bone mineral test at both the beginning of the study and 30 months later.  At the end, doctors found that being overweight or obese does, in fact, increase the likelihood of developing knee osteoarthritis, but no weight had any bearing on slowing down the diseases progression.

Although, despite that, the study did find that based on how the knees were aligned, it could have an effect on the progression.  And, among the patients that were obese, it increased the chances of OA regardless of how the knees were aligned.