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Hall, E.J. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9978-8736, Carter, A.J. ORCID: 0000-0002-6216-2377 and O'Neill, D.G.,
2020.
Dogs don't die just in hot cars – exertional heat-related illness (heatstroke) is a greater threat to UK dogs.
Animals, 10 (8): 1324.
ISSN 2076-2615
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Abstract
Heat-related illness will affect increasing numbers of dogs as global temperatures rise unless effective mitigation strategies are implemented. This study aimed to identify the key triggers of heat-related illness in dogs and investigate canine risk factors for the most common triggers in UK dogs. Using the VetCompassTM programme, de-identified electronic patient records of 905,543 dogs under primary veterinary care in 2016 were reviewed to identify 1259 heat-related illness events from 1222 dogs. Exertional heat-related illness was the predominant trigger (74.2% of events), followed by environmental (12.9%) and vehicular confinement (5.2%). Canine and human risk factors appear similar; young male dogs had greater odds of exertional heat-related illness, older dogs and dogs with respiratory compromise had the greatest odds of environmental heat-related illness. Brachycephalic dogs had greater odds of all three types of heat-related illness compared with mesocephalic dogs. The odds of death following vehicular heat-related illness (OR 1.47, p = 0.492) was similar to that of exertional heat-related illness. In the UK, exertional heat-related illness affects more dogs, and kills more dogs, than confinement in a hot vehicle. Campaigns to raise public awareness about heat-related illness in dogs need to highlight that dogs don't die just in hot cars.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Animals | ||||||
| Creators: | Hall, E.J., Carter, A.J. and O'Neill, D.G. | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI AG | ||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 10 | ||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2076-2615 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. © This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 06 Aug 2020 13:25 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:18 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40361 |
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