Women tend to recover more quickly following knee surgery, new findings indicate.
Research published in journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research found that while women generally have worse knee function before opting for knee replacement than men do, they recover more quickly.
Prior to the operation, women also tend to suffer from more severe symptoms.
However, one year after the operation, men appeared to have caught up with their female counterparts and there are no differences in surgery outcomes at this time.
Authors wrote that they did not yet know why women initially recover faster from surgery than men.
"It could be because of women's lower preoperative health-related quality of life, whereby they have more to gain from surgery, or because of other speculative factors such as different postoperative activity levels, psychological factors, or different utilization of treatment. It is too early to say," they said.
This follows research published in Journal Nature Immunology which found that rogue blood cells could contribute to post-surgery organ damage.
Written by Mathew Horton
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