Use of principle component analysis to quantitatively score the equine metabolic syndrome phenotype in an Arabian horse population.

Abstract excerpt

Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS), like human metabolic syndrome, comprises a collection of clinical signs related to obesity, insulin dysregulation and susceptibility to secondary inflammatory disease. Although the secondary conditions resulting from EMS can be life-threatening, diagnosis is not straightforward and often complicated by the presence of other concurrent conditions like pituitary pars intermedia...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Blood Glucose
• Share to Body Weight