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Gender, age and breed pattern of diagnoses for veterinary care in insured dogs in Sweden during 1996
Author(s) -
Egenvall A.,
Hedhammar A.,
Bonnett B. N.,
Olson P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.146.19.551
Subject(s) - breed , medicine , pyometra , veterinary medicine , retrospective cohort study , medical diagnosis , sex organ , etiology , pediatrics , pathology , biology , zoology , uterus , genetics
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.