Prevalence of clinical findings at examinations of young Swedish warmblood ridinghorses

Jönsson, Lina; Roepstorff, Lars; Egenvall, Agneta; Näsholm, Anna; Dalin, Göran; Philipsson, Jan

doi:10.1186/1751-0147-55-34

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Table 2 Clinical findings with largest effect (≤ −1.5 points) onrespective overall score (H1/H2) at health examinations 1 and 2

From: Prevalence of clinical findings at examinations of young Swedish warmblood ridinghorses

	Effect of clinical finding on overall score
	Minor			Moderate or severe
	Estimate¹	p=	Prevalence (%)	Estimate¹	p=	Prevalence (%)	R²(%)²
Health examination 1 Medical health
Spontaneous or provocable cough	−1.16	***	1.20	−2.04	***	0.20	2.80
Heart, general	−1.05	***	0.90	−1.93	***	0.02	1.50
Nasal cavity, general	−0.24	**	1.30	−1.76	***	0.05	0.27
Hoof examination
Poor hoof wall quality	−0.79	***	2.60	−1.60	***	0.20	2.68
Health examination 2 Palpatory orthopaedic health
*Soreness*
Tarsocrural joint	.	.	0.00	−6.72	***	0.01	0.30
Hindlimb superficial digital flexor tendon	−0.01	ns.	0.02	−6.49	***	0.01	0.30
Forelimb superficial digital flexor tendon	−1.27	ns.	0.04	−6.49	***	0.01	0.30
Hindlimb deep digital flexor tendon	−1.17	ns.	0.01	−6.49	***	0.01	0.30
Forelimb deep digital flexor tendon	−2.38	**	0.02	−4.08	***	0.02	0.30
Quadriceps muscles	−0.07	ns.	0.07	−2.08	ns.	0.01	0.03
Shoulder/elbow joint	−1.15	ns.	0.05	−1.83	ns.	0.01	0.05
Back muscles/spinous processes	−0.76	***	2.93	−1.68	***	0.60	1.63
*Heat*
Tarsocrural joint	2.04	ns.	0.01	−5.06	***	0.01	0.20
Metacarpus, proximal	−0.19	ns.	0.13	−3.07	*	0.01	0.10
Forelimb deep digital flexor tendon	.	.	0.00	−1.71	ns.	0.01	0.02
Metacarpophalangeal joint	−0.66	ns.	0.02	−1.50	ns.	0.02	0.03
*Effusion*
Shoulder/elbow joint	1.21	ns.	0.02	−4.61	***	0.01	0.20
Tarsometatarsal/centrodistal joint	−0.70	ns.	0.11	−1.55	*	0.04	0.07
*Stiffness/Atrophy*
Hindlimb pastern joint	0.71	ns.	0.01	−4.03	***	0.01	0.10
Femoropatellar joint	−1.49	ns.	0.01	−2.43	*	0.01	0.05
Medial part of femorotibial joint	.	.	0.00	−2.43	*	0.01	0.04
Middle carpal/carpometacarpal joint	−1.21	ns.	0.01	−2.34	*	0.01	0.04
Shoulder/elbow joint	0.83	ns.	0.02	−2.11	ns.	0.01	0.04
Metacarpophalangeal joint	−0.21	ns.	0.24	−1.90	***	0.06	0.12
Forelimb hoof cartilage	−0.27	ns.	0.25	−1.77	ns.	0.01	0.03
Croup/hamstrings muscles	−0.92	***	3.33	−1.69	***	0.86	2.43
Quadriceps muscles	−0.86	***	1.63	−1.62	***	0.51	1.21
*Swelling*
Back muscles/spinous processes	−0.90	ns.	0.06	−3.40	***	0.04	0.20
Forelimb hoof cartilage	−0.44	ns.	0.29	−2.50	***	0.06	0.23
Tarsometatarsal/centrodistal joint	−0.49	***	1.76	−1.57	***	0.81	1.18
Locomotion examination
Forelimb unprovoked movements in trot	−1.89	***	1.47	−4.27	***	0.09	3.30
Hindlimb unprovoked movements in trot	−2.06	***	2.40	−3.61	***	0.27	6.34
Forelimb post flexion test movements in trot³	−1.78	***	8.96	−3.10	***	1.90	8.97
Hindlimb post flexion test movements in trot³	−1.73	***	10.20	−3.05	***	2.94	11.50
Forelimb unprovoked movements in walk	−0.61	**	0.43	−3.02	***	0.03	0.20
Hindlimb unprovoked movements in walk	−1.50	***	0.60	−1.97	***	0.06	0.77

¹Estimate of class effect on overall score compared to nofinding, from single trait analyses.
²R² values from single trait analysis when thesummed R² from fixed effects has been removed (35% for H1and 27% for H2).
³Missing information for 26 horses,n = 8,255.
ns = nonsign* = p < 0.05** = p < 0.01*** = p < 0.001.
Ordered after decreasing magnitude of estimates for moderate/severefindings within examination groups. N = 8,281 if nothingelse indicated.

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