Research Article
Lifestyle as Risk Factor for Infectious Causes of Death in Young Dogs: A Retrospective Study in Southern Italy (2015–2017)
Table 3
Correlation of the categories of infection to lifestyle, age, gender, and breed.
| Category of infection | Variable | χ2 | | OR | 95% CI |
| Pure viral | Lifestyle | 1.67 | 0.1962 | 0.54 | 0.25–1.21 | Age | 0.04 | 0.8313 | 1.26 | 0.46–3.42 | Gender | 0.19 | 0.5094 | 0.74 | 0.31–1.77 | Bacterial | Lifestyle | 1.67 | 0.1962 | 0.54 | 0.25–1.21 | Age | 0.04 | 0.8313 | 1.26 | 0.46–3.42 | Gender | 0.19 | 0.5094 | 0.74 | 0.31–1.77 | Breed | 9.91 | 0.0012 | 0.22 | 0.08–0.5 |
| Mixed viral | Lifestyle | 6.35 | 0.0117 | 3.24 | 1.26–8.33 | Age | 0.31 | 0.5776 | 0.66 | 0.33–1.54 | Gender | 0.11 | 0.5873 | 0.79 | 0.34–1.82 | Breed | 0.12 | 0.5591 | 1.32 | 0.51–3.43 |
| Bacterial | Lifestyle | 6.31 | 0.0120 | 0.2 | 0.05–0.77 | Age | 2.07 | 0.1497 | 4.12 | 0.51–32.76 | Gender | 0.77 | 0.2546 | 2.01 | 0.60–6.69 | Breed | 2.84 | 0.0788 | 6.37 | 0.8–50.39 |
| Mixed viral-bacterial | Lifestyle | 3.67 | 0.0551 | 1.95 | 0.98–3.88 | Age | 1.4 | 0.2355 | 0.6 | 0.26–1.38 | Gender | 0.01 | 0.9276 | 1.03 | 0.5–2.09 | Breed | 1.54 | 0.1531 | 1.54 | 0.8–3.98 |
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