Orthopaedic health status of horses from 8 riding schools - a pilot study

Table 4 Odds ratios (OR) with 95% CIs¹ for for significant (p < 0.05) and borderline (0.05 ≤ p <0.15) insurance utilisation and examiner effects, by finding, from repeated effects model, including seven riding schools and 91-95 horses.

	Finding	OR	95% CI	p-value
High insurance utilisation
Movement	Trot on a left hand circle	1.3	(0.9, 1.7)	0.13
evaluation	Trot on a right hand circle	3.9	(2.1, 7.2)	<0.0001
	Canter on a right hand circle	0.5	(0.2, 1.2)	0.12
Conformation	Left hind limb	4.3	(1.4, 13)	0.02
Palpation	Brachiocephalicus	2.0	(1.1, 3.6)	0.03
	Hind limb suspensory ligaments	0.2	(0.1, 0.5)	0.0003
Examinor CJ
Movement	Straight trot	2.3	(0.8, 6.9)	0.12
evaluation	Trot on a left hand circle	1.9	(1.7, 2.1)	<0.0001
	Trot on a right hand circle	8.0	(6.0, 11)	<0.0001
Conformation	Back	6.0	(0.9, 42)	0.07
	Right fore limb	0.8	(0.6, 1.0)	0.08
	Left hind limb	2.0	(1.3, 3.1)	0.002
Palpation	Brachiocephalicus	1.3	(0.9, 1.8)	0.12
	Saddle area	4.7	(2.8, 7.9)	<0.0001
	Fore limbs	5.0	(2.7, 9.3)	<0.0001
	Fore limb suspensory ligaments	1.8	(1.4, 2.3)	<0.0001
	Hind limb suspensory ligaments	18	(7.2, 43)	<0.0001
Flexion tests	Fore limbs	0.6	(0.4, 0.8)	0.003
	Hind limbs	2.4	(0.9, 6.3)	0.08

ORs (1) for the baseline categories (low insurance utilisation or examiner LR) are not shown.
¹ 95% CI- 95% confidence intervals

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