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Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses
BACKGROUND: This study investigated the variation in plasma insulin concentration (PIC) in a group of Icelandic horses in training, considered to be healthy and examined possible relationships between PIC and gender, age, body size, body condition score and management factors such as feed allowance...
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27829433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0258-8 |
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author | Jansson, Anna Stéfansdóttir, Gudrun J. Ragnarsson, Sveinn |
author_facet | Jansson, Anna Stéfansdóttir, Gudrun J. Ragnarsson, Sveinn |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study investigated the variation in plasma insulin concentration (PIC) in a group of Icelandic horses in training, considered to be healthy and examined possible relationships between PIC and gender, age, body size, body condition score and management factors such as feed allowance and subjective level of fitness. RESULTS: Plasma insulin concentration ranged from 0.2 to 13.9 mU/l, body condition score from 2.3 to 4.0 and concentrate allowance from 0 to 4 kg. There was a significant effect of concentrate allowance (P = 0.0007) and body condition score (P = 0.004) on PIC. For every 1 kg increase in the concentrate allowance, log-PIC increased by 0.26 mU/l. For every 1 unit increase in body condition score, log-PIC increased by 0.45 mU/l. There was no effect of hay allowance, level of fitness, transport time, body size and age on insulin concentration. CONCLUSION: Owners of Icelandic horses should be aware that increased body condition elevates PIC, and thereby potentially the risk of laminitis. However, in the group of horses studied, the concentrations were within the range considered normal. |
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spelling | pubmed-51034042016-11-10 Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses Jansson, Anna Stéfansdóttir, Gudrun J. Ragnarsson, Sveinn Acta Vet Scand Brief Communication BACKGROUND: This study investigated the variation in plasma insulin concentration (PIC) in a group of Icelandic horses in training, considered to be healthy and examined possible relationships between PIC and gender, age, body size, body condition score and management factors such as feed allowance and subjective level of fitness. RESULTS: Plasma insulin concentration ranged from 0.2 to 13.9 mU/l, body condition score from 2.3 to 4.0 and concentrate allowance from 0 to 4 kg. There was a significant effect of concentrate allowance (P = 0.0007) and body condition score (P = 0.004) on PIC. For every 1 kg increase in the concentrate allowance, log-PIC increased by 0.26 mU/l. For every 1 unit increase in body condition score, log-PIC increased by 0.45 mU/l. There was no effect of hay allowance, level of fitness, transport time, body size and age on insulin concentration. CONCLUSION: Owners of Icelandic horses should be aware that increased body condition elevates PIC, and thereby potentially the risk of laminitis. However, in the group of horses studied, the concentrations were within the range considered normal. BioMed Central 2016-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5103404/ /pubmed/27829433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0258-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Jansson, Anna Stéfansdóttir, Gudrun J. Ragnarsson, Sveinn Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title | Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title_full | Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title_fullStr | Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title_full_unstemmed | Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title_short | Plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in Icelandic horses |
title_sort | plasma insulin concentration increases linearly with body condition in icelandic horses |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27829433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-016-0258-8 |
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