{"doi":"10.1111/jvim.70060","title":"Association Between Diet Type and Owner-Reported Health Conditions in Dogs in the Dog Aging Project","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Alternative dog diets, such as home-cooked and raw, have grown in popularity. Claims regarding health benefits for these diets have limited supporting evidence. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether feeding home-cooked, commercial raw, or homemade raw diets is associated with health conditions compared to extruded diets. ANIMALS: Twenty-seven thousand four hundred seventy-eight dogs. METHODS: Cross-sectional, survey-based study. We analyzed a large cross-sectional dataset (n = 27 478) of dogs fed homemade cooked (n = 1214), commercial raw (n = 961), homemade raw (n = 329), or extruded (n = 24 974) diets. We investigated associations between diet and 13 owner-reported health condition categories. Logistic regression was used for the analysis of all health conditions. RESULTS: Controlling for sex, age, and body size or breed, a home-cooked diet was associated with higher odds of gastrointestinal (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 1.4; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2-1.7), renal (aOR: 1.3; CI: 1.1-1.6), and hepatic disease (aOR: 1.6; CI: 1.2-2.0) compared to an extruded diet. A commercial raw diet was associated with higher odds of respiratory disease (aOR 1.7; CI: 1.3-2.3) compared to an extruded diet. CONCLUSIONS: Analysis of cross-sectional data can only suggest effects of diet on health and are most useful for hypothesis generation or for testing existing hypotheses.","journal":"Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine","year":2025,"id":543836,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.7854,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1230446,"name":"Ingrid Luo","orcid":"0009-0005-6649-962X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1240449,"name":"Janice O’Brien","orcid":"0009-0003-0724-6564","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1433789,"name":"Maryanne Murphy","orcid":"0000-0002-7371-3015","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1434156,"name":"Angela Witzel Rollins","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":287812,"name":"Matt Kaeberlein","orcid":"0000-0002-1311-3421","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":676979,"name":"Audrey Ruple","orcid":"0000-0002-5223-0217","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":55679,"name":"Kathleen F. Kerr","orcid":"0000-0002-6438-9583","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":470182,"name":"M. Katherine Tolbert","orcid":"0000-0001-8725-9530","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1434155,"name":"Alexandra Varela Ortiz","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":22,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:53:08.338070Z","pmid":"40256950","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}