Lifestyle as Risk Factor for Infectious Causes of Death in Young Dogs: A Retrospective Study in Southern Italy (2015–2017)

Table 2

Results of univariate analyses showing the distribution of the lesions in the organs related to the studied variables.

Variables		No lesion		1 organ		2 organs		3 organs		4 organs		5 organs		χ^2
		n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)	n	(%)
Lifestyle	Ownerless	0	—	6	8.57	24	34.28	24	34.28	16	22.85	0	—	10.348	0.013
	Onwed	6	100	10	14.7	31	45.58	12	17.64	8	11.76	1	1.47
Age	<6 months	5	4.58	12	11	41	37.61	33	30.27	17	15.59	1	0.91	1.69	0.1936
	>6 months	1	3.44	4	13.79	14	48.27	3	10.34	7	24.13	0	—
Gender	Male	1	1.2	10	12.82	31	39.74	22	28.2	14	17.94	0	—	5.58	0.2328
	Female	4	7.5	6	11.32	18	33.96	14	26.41	10	18.86	1	1.88
Breed	Purebred	4	4.3	12	12.9	28	30.1	28	30.1	20	21.5	1	1.07	16.36	0.0026
	Crossbreed	1	2.7	4	10.8	21	56.75	8	21.62	3	8.1	0	—