Association Between Diet Type and Owner-Reported Health Conditions in Dogs in the Dog Aging Project

IF 2.1 2区农林科学 Q1 VETERINARY SCIENCES

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI:10.1111/jvim.70060

Alexandra Varela Ortiz, Ingrid Luo, Janice O'Brien, Maryanne Murphy, Angela Witzel Rollins, Matt Kaeberlein, Dog Aging Project Consortium, Audrey Ruple, Kathleen F. Kerr, M. Katherine Tolbert

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Abstract

Background

Alternative dog diets, such as home-cooked and raw, have grown in popularity. Claims regarding health benefits for these diets have limited supporting evidence.

Objectives

To evaluate whether feeding home-cooked, commercial raw, or homemade raw diets is associated with health conditions compared to extruded diets.

Animals

Twenty-seven thousand four hundred seventy-eight dogs.

Methods

Cross-sectional, survey-based study. We analyzed a large cross-sectional dataset (n = 27 478) of dogs fed homemade cooked (n = 1214), commercial raw (n = 961), homemade raw (n = 329), or extruded (n = 24 974) diets. We investigated associations between diet and 13 owner-reported health condition categories. Logistic regression was used for the analysis of all health conditions.

Results

Controlling for sex, age, and body size or breed, a home-cooked diet was associated with higher odds of gastrointestinal (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 1.4; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2–1.7), renal (aOR: 1.3; CI: 1.1–1.6), and hepatic disease (aOR: 1.6; CI: 1.2–2.0) compared to an extruded diet. A commercial raw diet was associated with higher odds of respiratory disease (aOR 1.7; CI: 1.3–2.3) compared to an extruded diet.

Conclusions

Analysis of cross-sectional data can only suggest effects of diet on health and are most useful for hypothesis generation or for testing existing hypotheses.

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狗衰老项目中狗的饮食类型和主人报告的健康状况之间的关系

家常菜和生食等替代狗粮越来越受欢迎。关于这些饮食对健康有益的说法支持证据有限。目的评价与膨化饲粮相比，家庭烹饪、商业生食或自制生食饲粮是否与健康状况相关。动物27,478只狗。方法横断面调查研究。我们分析了一个大型的横截面数据集（n = 27478），这些狗被喂食自制煮熟（n = 1214）、商业原料（n = 961）、自制原料（n = 329）或挤压（n = 24974）的狗粮。我们调查了饮食与13种主人报告的健康状况类别之间的关系。采用Logistic回归对所有健康状况进行分析。结果：在性别、年龄、体型或品种等因素的控制下，家常化饮食与胃肠道疾病的高发生率相关(调整优势比（aOR）： 1.4；95%可信区间（CI）： 1.2-1.7)，肾脏(aOR: 1.3；CI: 1.1-1.6)和肝脏疾病(aOR: 1.6；CI: 1.2-2.0)。商业生食与呼吸系统疾病的高风险相关(aOR为1.7；CI: 1.3-2.3)。结论：横断面数据分析只能提示饮食对健康的影响，对假设生成或检验现有假设最有用。

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Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 农林科学-兽医学

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

11.50%

发文量

243

审稿时长

22 weeks

期刊介绍： The mission of the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine is to advance veterinary medical knowledge and improve the lives of animals by publication of authoritative scientific articles of animal diseases.