Assessment of clinical characteristics, management practices, and activities of geriatric horses

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-103

  Brosnahan, Margaret M ^a   Paradis, Mary Rose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALLERGY; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMAL WELLBEING; ARTICLE; COLIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; HORSE; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; THYROID DISEASE; TOOTH DISEASE; TUMOR; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0037869587     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.223.99     Document Type: Article

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