ArticleMayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes2019
Dog Ownership and Cardiovascular Health: Results From the Kardiovize 2030 Project.
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- Determinants of Metabolic Health Across Body Mass Index Categories in Central Europe: A Comparison Between Swiss and Czech Populations.Frontiers in public health · 2020Pooled it
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- Social isolation and loneliness with risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: A prospective cohort study from UK Biobank.iScience · 2024Article
- Age modifies the association between pet ownership and cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
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- Pet Ownership and the Risk of Arterial Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease.Current hypertension reports · 2022Review
- A Review of Zoonotic Disease Threats to Pet Owners: A Compendium of Measures to Prevent Zoonotic Diseases Associated with Non-Traditional Pets: Rodents and Other Small Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Backyard Poultry, and Other Selected Animals.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2022Review
- Impact of Dog's Age and Breed on Dog Owner's Physical Activity: A German Longitudinal Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Canine Caregivers: Paradoxical Challenges and Rewards.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Lipidomic Profiling Identifies Signatures of Poor Cardiovascular Health.Metabolites · 2021Article
- New technologies applied to canine limb prostheses: A review.Veterinary world · 2021Review
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the association of pet ownership, and specifically dog ownership, with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors and cardiovascular health (CVH) in the Kardiovize Brno 2030 study, a randomly selected prospective cohort in Central Europe. PATIENTS AND
methodsWe included 1769 subjects (aged from 25 to 64 years; 44.3% males) with no history of CVD who were recruited from January 1, 2013, to December 19, 2014. We compared sociodemographic characteristics, CVD risk factors, CVH metrics (ie, body mass index, healthy diet, physical activity level, smoking status, blood pressure, fasting glucose, and total cholesterol), and score between pet owners and non-pet owners or dog owners and several other subgroups.
resultsApproximately 42% of subjects owned any type of pet: 24.3% owned a dog and 17.9% owned another animal. Pet owners, and specifically dog owners, were more likely to report physical activity, diet, and blood glucose at ideal level, and smoking at poor level, which resulted in higher CVH score than non-pet owners (median, 10; interquartile range = 3 vs median, 9; interquartile range = 3;
conclusionExcept for smoking, dog owners were more likely to achieve recommended level of behavioral CVH metrics (physical activity and diet) than non-dog owners, which translated into better CVH.
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