Correspondence on 'Risk of venous thromboembolism in knee, hip and hand osteoarthritis: a general population-based cohort study'.

We found the article by Zeng et al extremely interesting.1 They reported that knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA), but not hand OA, was associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). This population-based cohort study used datasets from the Health Improvement Network, from January 2000 to December 2017, to compare the incidence of VTE between joint and non-joint replacements in OA patients and non-OA controls using matching methods by age, sex, entry time and body mass index. The author concluded that OA was associated with an increased risk for VTE in knee or hip OA patients, which was partially mediated through knee or hip replacement. Although the findings of this study may be significant for clinicians, …