Table 7. Prevalence of syndromic disorders related to pathophysiologic processes recorded in overall dogs, purebreds only and crossbreds only that attended primary veterinary practices in England.

	Overall			Purebred		Crossbred
Pathophysiologic process	No.	Preva%	95% CIb	Preva%	95% CIb	Preva%	95% CIb	P–value
Inflammation	1,246	32.1	29.8–34.3	33.2	30.7–35.7	28.1	25.1–31.2		0.006
Mass/swelling	625	16.1	14.6–17.6	16.7	15.0–18.4	14.1	11.8–16.3		0.222
Traumatic	557	14.3	12.8–15.9	14.3	12.7–16.0	14.3	11.6–17.0		1.000
Degenerative	411	10.6	9.4–11.8	10.4	9.0–11.7	11.4	9.1–13.8		1.000
Infectious	388	10.0	9.0–11.0	10.3	9.1–11.4	9.0	6.9–11.2		1.000
Neoplastic	336	8.7	7.6–9.8	8.6	7.3–9.8	9.0	7.2–10.9		1.000
Congenital/developmental	332	8.6	7.4–9.7	8.9	7.6–10.2	7.3	5.6–9.2		0.870
Nutritional	320	8.2	7.1–9.4	8.9	7.5–10.2	5.9	4.3–7.5		0.014
Behavioural	262	6.8	5.9–7.6	6.5	5.5–7.4	7.9	6.0–9.8		1.000
Hereditary	232	6.0	5.1–6.9	6.2	5.1–7.3	5.3	3.5–7.0		1.000
Parasitic	221	5.7	5.0–6.4	5.5	4.6–6.3	6.7	5.0–8.4		1.000
Iatrogenic	150	3.9	3.3–4.5	3.7	3.1–4.4	4.4	2.9–5.9		1.000
Foreign body	109	2.8	2.3–3.3	2.8	2.3–3.4	2.8	1.6–3.9		1.000
Death	65	1.7	1.2–2.2	1.6	1.1–2.1	2.1	1.2–3.1		1.000
Intoxicative	49	1.3	1.0–1.7	1.3	1.0–1.8	1.1	0.6–2.1		1.000
Haemostatic	38	1.0	0.7–1.3	1.1	0.8–1.5	0.5	0.2–1.3		0.496
Immune–mediated	38	1.0	0.7–1.3	1.1	0.8–1.5	0.5	0.2–1.3		0.620
Allergic	35	0.9	0.7–1.3	0.9	0.6–1.3	0.9	0.4–1.8		1.000
Thermoregulatory	17	0.4	0.3–0.7	0.4	0.2–0.7	0.6	0.3–1.5		1.000
Metabolic	8	0.2	0.1–0.4	0.2	0.1–0.4	0.3	0.1–0.9		1.000
Effusion	1	0.0	0.0–0.2	0.0	0.0–0.2	0.0	0.0–0.5		1.000

P–values (Holm–adjusted) represent comparison between purebreds and crossbreds.

^aPrev prevalence.

^b95% CI 95% confidence interval.