Exploring frailty in apparently healthy senior dogs: a cross-sectional study.

IF 2.3 2区 农林科学 Q1 VETERINARY SCIENCES BMC Veterinary Research Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI:10.1186/s12917-024-04296-1
Tiphaine Blanchard, Amélie Mugnier, Sébastien Déjean, Nathalie Priymenko, Annabelle Meynadier
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Background: As dogs age, they face various health challenges, and preventive care may be overlooked, impacting their quality of life. Frailty, a concept established in human medicine, has recently been applied to dogs using validated tools like the frailty index and frailty phenotype. This study aims to characterize frailty in senior pet dogs and investigate associated factors. To achieve this goal, 88 apparently healthy dogs, as reported by their owners, voluntarily participated in thorough consultations. These consultations included supplementary examinations such as urinary analyses, hematological assessments, and blood biochemistry. Additionally, owners completed questionnaires addressing their dog's overall health, cognitive and locomotor status, as well as their own attachment to the dog and personality traits. Subsequently, each dog was classified as robust or frail based on the presence of multiple criteria out of a set of five. All collected data underwent preliminary screening by a multiple factorial analysis, followed by binomial logistic regression to model frailty.

Results: The final population consisted of 74 dogs, with a frailty prevalence of 41.9% (95% CI: 30.5 - 53.9). In the statistical analysis, older age of the dog, lower owner attachment score, lack of regular deworming, and a disparity in extraversion between owner and dog were identified as contributing factors to frailty.

Conclusions: This study emphasizes the importance of regular deworming and strong owner-pet attachment in reducing frailty in dogs. It underscores the significance of proactive pet care and highlights the complex relationship between owner-dog personalities and canine frailty. This research advocates for a holistic approach that considers both human and canine traits to promote better health outcomes.

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探究表面健康的老年犬的虚弱:一项横断面研究。
背景:随着狗年龄的增长,它们会面临各种健康挑战,预防性护理可能会被忽视,从而影响它们的生活质量。虚弱(Frailty)是人类医学中的一个概念,最近已被应用到狗身上,并使用了虚弱指数和虚弱表型等经过验证的工具。本研究旨在描述老年宠物狗的虚弱特征并调查相关因素。为了实现这一目标,由主人报告的 88 只表面上健康的狗自愿参加了全面咨询。这些咨询包括尿液分析、血液学评估和血液生化等辅助检查。此外,狗的主人还填写了调查问卷,内容涉及狗的总体健康状况、认知能力和运动状态,以及他们对狗的感情和个性特征。随后,根据五项标准中的多项标准,将每只狗分为健壮型和虚弱型。所有收集到的数据都经过了多重因子分析的初步筛选,然后用二项式逻辑回归法建立虚弱模型:结果:最终研究对象包括 74 只狗,体弱患病率为 41.9%(95% CI:30.5 - 53.9)。在统计分析中,狗的年龄较大、主人依恋程度得分较低、没有定期驱虫以及主人和狗之间的外向性差异被认为是导致虚弱的因素:本研究强调了定期驱虫和主人与宠物之间牢固的依恋关系对减少狗狗体弱的重要性。它强调了积极主动的宠物护理的重要性,并突出了主人与狗的性格和犬体弱之间的复杂关系。这项研究提倡采取综合方法,同时考虑人和犬的特征,以促进更好的健康结果。
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BMC Veterinary Research
BMC Veterinary Research VETERINARY SCIENCES-
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4.80
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3.80%
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420
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3-6 weeks
期刊介绍: BMC Veterinary Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of veterinary science and medicine, including the epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of medical conditions of domestic, companion, farm and wild animals, as well as the biomedical processes that underlie their health.
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