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Record W1420732868 · doi:10.1007/s11999-008-0174-y

Re: Role of Obesity on the Risk for Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty

2008· letter· en· W1420732868 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueClinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 2008
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineOverweightObesityArthroplastyPhysical therapyPopulationOsteoarthritisOrthopedic surgeryRisk factorSurgeryInternal medicineEnvironmental healthAlternative medicinePathology

Abstract

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To the Editor: We read with great interest the article “Role of Obesity on the Risk for Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty” by Bourne et al. [1] in the December 2007 issue of CORR. The authors state increasing obesity was associated with increased relative risk for hip or knee arthroplasty. They found almost 75% of total hip arthroplasty recipients and 88% of total knee arthroplasty recipients were overweight or obese whereas the percentage of overweight or obese people for the Canadian population is 51.4%. These percentages could reflect a relationship between obesity and the risk of hip and knee arthroplasties, but there are no data regarding the etiologic factors leading to obesity in these patients. Arthrosis of the hip or the knee causes pain in the affected joint and typically results in a decline in physical activity; a sedentary lifestyle and physical inactivity lead to obesity [2]. It is unclear whether obesity causes arthrosis or arthrosis leads to physical inactivity and thus to obesity. If the latter is correct, one also would anticipate a higher percentage of obese patients in a population undergoing arthroplasty. Patients complaining of being overweight because of inactivity imposed by their pain is not uncommon. We believe this requires additional research for a definitive answer.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesResearch integrity
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.314
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0030.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.089
GPT teacher head0.383
Teacher spread0.294 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it