Research Article

Arthroplasty Utilization in the United States is Predicted by Age-Specific Population Groups

Figure 1

Hip and knee arthroplasty trends over time. Hips and knee arthroplasty incidence has risen in a nonlinear fashion over time. The smoothed scatterplot trend line represents a locally weighted polynomial regression.
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