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..At the ages 6, 8 and 10 years, 1%, 6% and 13% respectively, of all females had at least one MT claim. The MT mortality was 6 deaths per 10,000 DYAR and increased with age. The overall-case fatality was 6%...

..The aim of this study was to use previously suggested parameters for establishing a radiographic diagnosis of sand colic, and compare these findings between a sand colic group and a control group...

..The aim of this paper was to evaluate if herd or individual animal characteristics influence whether cattle receives veterinary treatment for disease, and thereby also introduce misclassification in the disease recording system...

..The concern was raised that many attending veterinarians did not exclude cutaneous adverse food reactions before making the diagnosis of CAD...

..Another survey was used to determine the attitudes about use of RT in a group of Swedish veterinarians. Their responses were analyzed and compared to their level of knowledge of oncology and RT...

..A cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the seroprevalence of different serovars of Leptospira spp. and their association with clinical disease and host factors in Swedish horses...

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..A second aim was to retrospectively compare clinical signs in dogs with generalized SA and to estimate the survival after diagnosis in the English springer spaniel, standard poodle and the akita...

..The risk of death increased with increasing life-insurance value. Horses with previous lameness had the lowest survival, and for high-cost claims this increased risk was not associated with age...

..With a Cox regression model controlling for breed and age, females were shown to be at decreased risk of bone tumors, with a hazard ratio of 0.71 (99% confidence interval 0.58 to 0.87)...

..In conclusion, the horses with previous locomotor problems continued to have considerably more veterinary-care events and higher costs for locomotor problems during the follow-up period...

..For example, among cats under 9 years of age, the rate for lower urinary tract problems was 2-3 times higher in males than females...

..Colic is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in horses. In Sweden, an insurance database with diagnostic medical information is maintained on >30% of the nation's horse population...

..Overall riding schools utilised the insurance more compared to all horses in the insurance database ( approximately 22% for the veterinary-care insurance and approximately 79% for the settled life insurance)...

..The aim was to study between riding school variation in orthopaedic health status by clinical examination and horses age, and control for change of examiner, in schools with previous high (n = 4) and low (n = 4) insurance utilisation...

..A cat life insurance database can potentially be used to study feline mortality...

..Insurance data can highlight common, expensive and severe conditions that may not be evident from teaching hospital case loads but may be significant burdens on the health of a population...

..Population-based information on disease occurrence is paramount in clinical decision making and in designing preventative measures, but such information is scarce...

..The results of multivariable models developed by using Poisson regression generally agreed well with the crude results...

..There were considerable variations in incidence rate between breeds...

..In general, the data are adequate to support ongoing research with due considerations of certain limitations...

..Geldings had the highest rate of at least one disease event in the joints, unspecified/whole body, skeletal or respiratory system, whereas in the other four major systems the difference between the sexes was marginal...

..The implications of these findings should be considered in multivariable analyses, where the confounding effect of age is often controlled for using a single age variable common to several breeds...

..In the studied breeds, this proportion ranged between 10 and 54%. Pyometra is a clinically relevant problem in intact bitches, and differences related to breed and age should be taken into account in studies of this disease...

..Diagnosis often has been made based on positive antibody titers in serum of dogs with neurological signs, but a high seroprevalence in dogs in at-risk populations makes diagnosis difficult...

..burgdorferi s. l., there were no significant associations in the multivariable models between non-specific or specific clinical sign or disease with seropositivity to either of these agents...

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..The random effect of veterinarian accounted for 35% of the modeled variation. Future studies are needed to assess how the differential misclassification affect estimates based on the data, and how to account for it...

..In a subset of the data that consisted only of dogs from 15 high-risk breeds, the overall survival appeared to be lower for the dogs that had had an insurance claim for the disease...

..7 years with median 5 years. Mongrels comprised 13.3% and the most common breed was the dachshund (7.4%). Of dogs with information on insurance status, 68.4% of the dogs were insured for veterinary care and 58.3% were life insured...

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..Anaplasma phagocytophilum infects several mammalian species, and can persist in sheep, dogs, and calves. However, whether this organism persists in horses or induces long-term clinical abnormalities is not known...

..To estimate the incidence and breed predilection for canine dystocia using data from insurance claims. The risk factors for cesarean section (CS) were assessed for bitches with dystocia...

..2 to 11.1) if the sire was affected. The OR for male offspring was 2.4 (95 per cent CI 1.1 to 5.7). The heritability of the condition was estimated to be 0.34 from the dogs born in 1992, and 0.28 from the dogs born in 1994...

..LUIO schools were significantly more likely to have at least 11 weeks of introductory work for new horses and were more likely to be under private management...

..However, there are few reports of such findings for epidemiological analyses or breeding purposes...

..Although statistically significant, it was concluded that the association was not of clinical relevance...

..We conclude that for the time period studied there was differential under-reporting associated with the diagnosis, the age of the animal and whether the herd was served by a state-employed or private veterinarian...

..This is essential also for valid testing of arena surfaces when simulating actual conditions...

..Dogs older than 3 years of age were more often infected with P. caninum than younger dogs, and large-breed dogs were more often infected than small-breed dogs. No sex predisposition was found...

..Saddle fit is well recognised as an important factor for the health and performance of riding horses. However, only few studies have addressed general effects of different saddle construction details within a group of horses...

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..In this study we found normal phagocytosis together with evidence of enhanced oxidative metabolism in the granulocytes from dogs with granulocytic ehrlichiosis...

..For veterinary care claims, in the logistic regression model type of visit was significantly associated with agreement, with clinic visits generating better agreement than field visits...

..4 (95% CI: 0.04-0.63). Randomized controlled clinical trials are needed to further support the finding of a potential protective role of diet in CAD development...

..Mortality was not affected. For therapeutic treatment, a shortage of studies in combination with heterogeneity made interpretations uncertain, and we could not determine if halofuginone treatment benefits calves...

..For a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms, there is a need for comprehensive epidemiologic studies. Earlier studies have shown that the risk of disease is higher in certain dog breeds...

..The PCR used holds promise to widen the diagnostic window and would also be diagnostic during the initial days of clinical disease when inclusions in neutrophils in blood smears are not yet apparent...

..Breed variations in incidence rate suggests genetic components in disease development. Our study may be valuable in the search for genetic risk-factors or protective factors...

..At rising trot the rider sits alternately down on one diagonal pair of limbs and rises up on the other. The possible effects on asymmetry of locomotion induced by rising trot have rarely been studied...

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..The infection can persist in experimentally inoculated animals for months, but to what extent this persistance also occurs in naturally infected animals and is associated with clinical signs, is not clarified yet...