Laminitis in the Obese Mature Horse Peripheral Cushingoid Syndrome (“Equine Metabolic Syndrome”)
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Obesity is a very common medical problem with which modern horses are faced in large part because of the impositions and requirements of modern management practices. In many respects, the tendency for adult horses to develop obesity and the endocrinopathic consequences of obesity-associated insulin insensitivity closely parallels adult-onset diabetes mellitus in human beings. Non-insulin dependent diabetes (type-2 diabetes mellitus) is currently receiving remarkable international recognition as an emerging disease of widespread importance. The major extent to which type-2 diabetes is currently being acknowledged in the human populace has been directly attributed to modern life-style practices including insufficient exercise and dietary excess. Modern horse management practices call for both the imposition of protracted periods of inactivity (stall confinement) and the provision of rations that tend to contain too much starch.
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