Probing the perils of dichotomous binning: How categorizing female dogs as spayed or intact can misinform our assumptions about the lifelong health consequences of ovariohysterectomy

Theriogenology

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1496-1500

  Waters, D J ^a,b   Kengeri, S S ^b   Maras, A H ^b   Chiang, E C ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gerald P Murphy Cancer Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Longevity; Misclassification bias; Oophorectomy; Ovarian conservation; Spaying

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; DOG; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; LONGEVITY; OVARIECTOMY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; HYSTERECTOMY; LONGEVITY; OVARIECTOMY; STERILIZATION, REPRODUCTIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 80053565054     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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