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South Asians more prone to knee arthritis: Expert
Saturday September 10, 2011 07:42:57 PM,
IANS
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Panaji: Senior
citizens in the Indian sub-continent suffer a 15 percent more
severe attack of osteo-arthritis in their knee joints as compared
to their counterpart Caucasians from Europe or northern America, a
specialist orthopaedic surgeon said here Saturday.
Speaking to reporters while announcing the merger of Ahmedabad-based
Shalby Hospitals with Goa's Vrundavan Hospital and Research Centre
(VHRC), chairman and managing director of Shalby Hospitals, Vikram
Shah, also said that the new post-merger entity -- Shalby
Vrundavan Hospital -- would focus on knee replacement surgeries in
the first phase.
"There is no scientific explanation for this, but south Asian
elders suffer 15 percent more severe osteo-arthritis attacks in
the knee joints than their Caucasian counterparts from Europe and
north America," Shah said.
"Unlike us, Caucasians are more vulnerable to osteo-arthritis of
the hip," Shah added.
Shah further said that the merger, where Shalby Hospitals picked
up a 55 percent stake in VHRC, will help the tremendous potential
of medical tourism in Goa, as thousands of foreign tourists flock
to the state for their summer vacations annually.
"We are certainly looking at that market," said Shah, who has
conducted over 22,000 knee replacement surgeries.
The Shalby Hospital is a 230-bed facility in Ahmedabad employing
over 100 doctors and has several other medical establishments in
other cities of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Kenya.
VHRC, located at Mapusa, 15 km north of here, is a 115-bed
facility.
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