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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