Cohen N D
Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract. 1997 Aug;13(2):191-201. doi: 10.1016/s0749-0739(17)30236-5.
Understanding the epidemiology of equine colic is directly relevant to the management of individual horses with colic. In this article, the epidemiology of colic is reviewed with emphasis on epidemiologic studies that have identified specific factors associated with increased risk of colic and epidemiologic studies that are designed to predict the need for surgery and prognosis in horses with colic. Despite the magnitude of the problem of equine colic, much remains to be learned about the epidemiology of this disease.
了解马属动物腹痛病的流行病学与个体腹痛病马的管理直接相关。在本文中，我们将对腹痛病的流行病学进行综述，重点关注已确定与腹痛病风险增加相关的特定因素的流行病学研究，以及旨在预测腹痛病马手术需求和预后的流行病学研究。尽管马属动物腹痛病问题严重，但关于这种疾病的流行病学仍有许多有待了解之处。
