insulin resistance Archieven - Laminitis : Understanding, Cure, Prevention

Theories and causes Treatment and prevention

Healthy seniors are at risk too

·6 February 2023

PPID is diagnosed in about 20% of horses over the age of 15 years. In over-30s, it affects as many as one in three horses. Even though we still don't know exactly how PPID causes laminitis, it is the second most prevalent…

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Ten questions about laminitis

·15 May 2021

Have you always wanted to know whether a wildebeest can become laminitic?Are you tongue-tied when some wise guy asks whether it is true that there are not less than three different kinds of laminitis instead of just one?Did you lose…

Anatomy & histology Definition

Subclinical and low-grade laminitis

·29 May 2017

A subclinical condition has no recognizable or measurable clinical manifestations. Oddly enough the term ‘subclinical laminitis’ is often being used to describe clearly visible, diagnosable signs of laminitis such as a stretched white line, a flaring hoof wall and laminitic…

Living conditions Treatment and prevention

Prevention of laminitis

·20 April 2016

Horses at risk Prevention begins with determining whether your horse belongs to a risk group. In that case, all the following information deserves extra attention. Risk groups: Welsh, Exmoor, Shetland and New Forest ponies, cobs, Appaloosas and Icelandic horses…

Diagnosis

Diagnosis PPID

·6 September 2015

To diagnose PPID, veterinarians can perform a clinical examination, take blood tests or use MRI scans. Clinical examination Initially a diagnosis will be made by observing the clinical symptoms. In particular, hypertrichosis gives a clear indication, although hypertrichosis occurs at an…

Theories and causes

Incretins and hyperinsulinemia

·6 September 2015

In the gastro-intestinal tract, specialized cells secrete incretins after the ingestion of food. Two important incretins are GIP and GLP-1: GIP stands for glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide GLP-1 stands for glucagon-like peptide-1. These incretins are produced in the small intestine shortly after the…