Demographics and costs of colic in Swedish horses

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1029-1037

  Egenvall, Agneta ^a   Penell, J ^a   Bonnett, B N ^b   Blix, J ^c   Pringle, J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c Agria Insurance   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breed group; Colic; Cox proportional hazards regression; Database; Equine; Insurance; Kaplan Meier; Longitudinal study; Sex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COLIC; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; SWEDEN; TIME;

ANIMALS; COLIC; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 47849125569     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2008.0136.x     Document Type: Article

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