> So my question for the list is: what percent of the population would have > to have a potentially disabling problem before we should consider it to be > worthy of screening? The question can work for any condition (hip > dysplasia, etc). Anyone care to vote?
That is a hard one. No doubt painful or life threatening problems such as hip dysplasia, patellar luxation, MVD should be required to keep a lower percentage than things like retinal dysplasia. Plus with some things such as hip dysplasia or patellar luxation it is impossible to know what the incidence is. Few statistics are available on patellar luxation and probably the majority of dysplastic dogs never get into the database. Just to throw out a number, if true statistics were available I would be getting concerned at 10% (that is 1 out of every 10 dogs!) and probably alarmed if the percentage reached 25% (1 out of every 4 dogs!) when considering life threatening/painful problems. Probably somewhere in between I would start screening. Laura Lang Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
