Jessica L Graves, Brennen A McKenzie, Zane Koch, Alexander Naka, Nathaniel Spofford, JoAnn Morrison
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate age, sex, body weight, breed, neuter status, and age at neutering as risk factors for diagnosis of osteoarthritis in companion dogs. ANIMALS: Dogs seen as patients at Banfield Pet Hospital in the United States from 1998 to 2019 with a date of death in 2019. The final cohort consisted of 131,140 dogs. METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, Cox proportional hazard models were used to test for associations between osteoarthritis incidence and age at baseline, sex, maximum body weight, maximum body condition score, neuter status, and age at neutering...
2023: Frontiers in Veterinary Science