Table 5.

Risk factors for overweight at 8·5 years in sixteen cats followed from 3 months of age^*

Factors	VIP
Sexual status (intact v. neutered)	0·63
Sex (male v. female)	1·56
Pedigree status (pedigree v. mixed breed)	0·99
Housing (exclusively indoor v. outdoor access)	0·41
Food intake (g/kg per d)	0·88
Body weight change from 3 to 12 months (%)	1·12

VIP, variable importance in projection.

^*Partial least squares discriminant analysis was performed to assess the effect of binary and continuous variables on the risk of being overweight. The Hosmer Lemeshow test was used to judge goodness of fit, and results are expressed as VIP, with values greater than 1 considered to be important (at a significance level of P<0·05). Food intake data are expressed as g of food per kg of the current body weight during the 12-month measurement period in 2009. Age was not included as a factor in the above analysis because all cats were approximately the same age.