Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Gender, age and breed pattern of diagnoses for veterinary care in insured dogs in Sweden during 1996.
- Journal:
- The Veterinary record
- Year:
- 2000
- Authors:
- Egenvall, A et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
- Species:
- dog
Plain-English summary
A study looked at over 200,000 insured dogs in Sweden at the start of 1996 to understand what health issues they faced. Researchers analyzed veterinary visit records to find out which problems were most common, considering factors like gender, age, and breed. They found that skin issues were the most frequent, followed by problems in the digestive and reproductive systems. For female dogs, reproductive issues were particularly common, with half of those affected having a serious condition called pyometra (a uterine infection). Overall, inflammatory issues were the most prevalent, followed by other conditions like injuries and tumors.
Abstract
More than 200,000 dogs insured for veterinary care by one Swedish company at the beginning of 1996 were included in a retrospective cross-sectional study. Data from receipts for visits to veterinarians that were part of reimbursed veterinary care events, whose cost exceeded the deductible cost, were used to calculate the risk of cause-specific morbidity, both in total and stratified by gender, age and breed. Diagnoses were described by organic system, for example, cardiovascular, and by disease process, for example, neoplastic The most commonly affected system was the integument followed by the gastrointestinal and genital systems. The genital system was the most commonly affected system in females, within which 50 per cent of the affected bitches had pyometra. Inflammatory processes were most common, followed by symptomatic conditions, traumatic injuries and neoplastic conditions.
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