{"id":2173,"date":"2020-11-09T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:49:07","slug":"priyanka-ballal-in-healio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/2020\/11\/09\/priyanka-ballal-in-healio\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Ballal in Healio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article__title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2175\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/files\/2020\/11\/kneepain-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Warfarin linked to greater hip, knee replacement risk<\/h1>\n<h6><em>\u201cWarfarin use was associated with a higher risk for hip and knee replacement compared to [direct oral anticoagulant] use,\u201d <b>Priyanka Ballal, MD,<\/b> said at a virtual press conference. \u201cThis risk appeared to increase with duration of use. This latter observation is extremely relevant, since people with atrial fibrillation often require lifelong anticoagulation.\u201d Source: Adobe Stock<\/em><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Treatment with warfarin is associated with a significantly greater risk for hip or knee replacement compared with direct oral anticoagulants, according to a speaker at ACR Convergence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOver the last decade, we have research from our group at BU that has demonstrated the importance of vitamin K in the adequate functioning of the bone and cartilage,\u201d <strong>Priyanka Ballal, MD,<\/strong> a rheumatology fellow at Boston University Medical Center, said at a virtual press conference at the meeting. \u201c<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/orthopedics\/20130304\/misra_10_3928_1081_597x_20130301_03_1056229\" id=\"rId8\" target=\"_blank\">Vitamin K deficiency<\/a> has been associated with osteoarthritis, both incidence and progression, and recent research shows that vitamin K supplementation may reduce osteoarthritis progression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/rheumatology\/20201108\/warfarin-linked-to-greater-hip-knee-replacement-risk\"><em>Read the full article<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warfarin linked to greater hip, knee replacement risk \u201cWarfarin use was associated with a higher risk for hip and knee replacement compared to [direct oral anticoagulant] use,\u201d Priyanka Ballal, MD, said at a virtual press conference. \u201cThis risk appeared to increase with duration of use. This latter observation is extremely relevant, since people with atrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/rheumatology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}