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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Vet Med. 2011 May 28;101(1-2):107–112. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2011.04.016

Table 2.

Number and proportion of single and multiple clinical signs in the population at the intake veterinary examination*.

Puppies Kittens
Clinical sign/s n % n %
No Signs 163 48.95 139 38.19
Digestive only 77 23.12 46 12.64
Respiratory only 30 9.01 73 20.05
Respiratory and digestive 23 6.91 64 17.58
Skin only 9 2.7 2 0.55
Skin and digestive 12 3.6 15 4.12
Skin and respiratory 5 1.5 7 1.92
Skin, digestive and respiratory 14 4.2 18 4.95
Total 333 100 364 100
*

Clinical signs were included in the proportional hazard model as individual variables, but not as overlapping multiple clinical signs, to avoid multicollinearity.