ArticleBMC veterinary research2017
Higher neonatal growth rate and body condition score at 7 months are predictive factors of obesity in adult female Beagle dogs.
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- Developmental programming in dogs.Biology of reproduction · 2026Review
- Behavioural susceptibility to environmental influences in obesity- evidence from a companion animal model.BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Correlation Between Hyperlipidemia-Related Diseases and Thorax/Thigh Circumference Ratio Along with Body Condition Score in Dogs Focusing on Molecular Mechanism: A Pilot Study and Literature Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fasting triglyceride concentrations are associated with markers of lipid metabolism and glucose homeostasis in healthy, non-obese dogs in lean and overweight condition.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Growth charts for small sample sizes using unsupervised clustering: Application to canine early growth.Veterinary research communications · 2023Article
- Environmental risk factors in puppies and kittens for developing chronic disorders in adulthood: A call for research on developmental programming.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Review
- Interleukin-6 and thrombopoietin concentrations in dogs with carcinoma with and without thrombocytosis.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2022Article
- Association between birth weight and risk of overweight at adulthood in Labrador dogs.PloS one · 2020Article
- Bodyweight at Birth and Growth Rate during the Neonatal Period in Three Canine Breeds.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe risks during early growth on becoming overweight in adulthood are widely studied in humans. However, early-life predictive factors for canine adult overweight and obesity have not yet been studied. To identify factors that may help explain the development of overweight and obesity at adulthood in dogs, a longitudinal study of 2 years was conducted in 24 female Beagle dogs of the same age, sexual status, and raised under identical environmental conditions. By means of a hierarchical classification on principal components with the following quantitative values: fat-free mass (FFM), percentage fat mass and pelvic circumference at 2 years of age, three groups of dogs were established and were nominally named: ideal weight (IW, n = 9), slightly overweight (OW1, n = 6) and overweight (OW2, n = 9). With the aim of identifying predictive factors of development of obesity at adulthood parental characteristics, growth pattern, energy balance and plasma factors were analysed by logistic regression analysis.
resultsAt 24 months, the group compositions were in line with the body condition scores (BCS 1-9) values of the IW (5 or 6/9), the OW1 (6/9) and the OW2 (7 or 8/9) groups. Logistic regression analysis permitted the identification of neonatal growth rate during the first 2 weeks of life (GR
conclusionThis study expands the understanding of previously reported risk factors for being overweight or obese in dogs, establishing that (i) 15 out of 24 of the studied dogs became overweight and (ii) GR
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