Sentences with phrase «risk than intact males»

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For both male and female Rotties spayed or neutered before one year of age, there was a one in four lifetime risk for bone cancer, and the sterilized animals were significantly more likely to develop the disease than intact dogs of the same breed.

A study on Golden Retrievers found that male dogs who were neutered before 12 months of age had double the risk of hip dysplasia than their intact counterparts (Torres de la Riva G, Hart BL, Farver TB, Oberbauer AM, Messam LLM, et al. (2013) Neutering Dogs: Effects on Joint Disorders and Cancers in Golden Retrievers)

The risk for castrated males was slightly greater than that for intact males, which had 2.4 times the relative risk of intact females.

A retrospective study of cardiac tumors in dogs showed that there was a 5 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma, one of the three most common cancers in dogs, in spayed bitches than intact bitches and a 2.4 times greater risk of hemangiosarcoma in neutered dogs as compared to intact males.

Both studies found that neutered male dogs have a four times higher risk of prostate cancer than intact dogs.

Intact females were at 2.86 to 14 times higher risk than neutered females and intact males were at 2.3 to 10 times higher risk than neutered males for these early onset condiIntact females were at 2.86 to 14 times higher risk than neutered females and intact males were at 2.3 to 10 times higher risk than neutered males for these early onset condiintact males were at 2.3 to 10 times higher risk than neutered males for these early onset conditions.

Multivariable analysis indicated that age, sex, health status, and cat lifestyle and source were significantly associated with risk of seropositivity, with adults more likely to be seropositive than juveniles (adjusted odds ratios [ORs], 2.5 and 2.05 for FeLV and FIV seropositivity, respectively), sexually intact adult males more likely to be seropositive than sexually intact adult females (adjusted ORs, 2.4 and 4.66), and outdoor cats that were sick at the time of testing more likely to be seropositive than healthy indoor cats (adjusted ORs, 8.89 and 11.3).

«Male and female dogs that underwent gonadectomy before 1 year of age had an approximate one in four lifetime risk for bone sarcoma and were significantly more likely to develop bone sarcoma than dogs that were sexually intact.»

For example, intact males constitute 80 percent of all dogs presented to veterinary behaviorists for what formerly has been described as dominance aggression, are involved in 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents, and are 2.6 times more likely to bite than neutered dogs, while unspayed females «attract free - roaming males, which increases bite risk to people through increased exposure to unfamiliar dogs,» and «contribute to the population of unwanted» and potentially aggressive dogs (Gershman et al., 1993; Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001).