Dog ownership and all-cause mortality in a population cohort in Norway: The HUNT study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Torske, Magnhild Oust ^a   Krokstad, Steinar ^a,b   Stamatakis, Emmanuel ^c   Bauman, Adrian ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b North Trondelag Hospital Trust   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; DEATH; DOG; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN (CITIZEN); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; WALKING; ADULT; ANIMAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EXERCISE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DOGS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; OWNERSHIP; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WALKING;

EID: 85021681950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179832     Document Type: Article

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