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Occurrence of cardiorespiratory diseases and impact on lifespan in Swedish Irish Wolfhounds: a retrospective questionnaire-based study

BACKGROUND: According to Swedish animal insurance data, Irish Wolfhounds (IW) are 29 times more likely to die from cardiac causes than the baseline breed. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) has a high prevalence in the breed and the disease has been shown to be hereditary in IW. Few studies address respir...

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Autores principales: Orleifson, Lovisa, Ljungvall, Ingrid, Höglund, Katja, Häggström, Jens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5540459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28764735
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-017-0320-1