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Titolo: (ENG) Displasia ( non so se l'avete gia letto) LUNGO!

Studi sulla displasia, e' un po vecchiotto ma magari molti di voi non
l'hanno mai letto....
oooopssss e' in inglese ma sono sicuro che il nostro Mr Lipton ce lo
tradurra volentieri ( cosi' fa un po di practice) ;-))
The Error of the Millennium in Veterinary Medicine
The background
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system in dogs have been a considerable
veterinary problem for decades. Statistics compiled by the canine science
associations indicate that 70-75% of the entire canine population are
affected. More than half of the dogs of all breeds exhibit pathological
changes, especially of the acetabulum and femur, known as hip dysplasia (HD)
or canine hip dysplasia (CHD).
The etiological or causal background to canine hip dysplasia has hitherto
generally been assumed to be multifactorial heredity. This term originates
from farm and slaughter animal breeding and postulates that not only
heredity but also environ-mental factors - especially nutrition - play a
role in determining characteristics. The relative importance of these
factors is expressed as the degree of heritability. For CHD, percentage
values of up to 60 % have been assumed or, with reference to 1, of 0.2 to
0.6.
The dog breeding associations in the United States, United Kingdom, France
and Germany developed X-ray systems designed to detect and combat hip
dysplasia. But only in Germany and several other European countries was it
attempted to eliminate CHD through selection, by excluding the dogs
exhibiting this condition from breeding in the populations of the different
breeds. These genetic measures, however, proved fruitless over a period of
three decades. The Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen (VDH) (German Kennel
Club) failed in its attempts to gain approval for this initiative from the
American Kennel Club (AKC), The Kennel Club (KC) or the Société Centrale
Canine (SCC) in France. The incidence of hip dysplasia still persists at
around 60-65 % in all the canine populations of the Western countries. When
other pathological changes are included, the total skeletal morbidity rate
is as high as 70-75 %. In most cases HD is accompanied by other skeletal
diseases.
Veterinarians in the Western countries have traditionally advocated a
"balanced diet" - without specifying further details - and have left it to
the animal foodstuffs industry to provide dogs with "optimized complete
diets". At present, around 80-85% of the total canine population is being
fed completely or partially with industrially manufactured preformulated
food, which has consequently become accepted as "healthy dog food". These
new feeding methods, however, have been unable to significantly improve
morbidity in terms of canine hip dysplasia. Indeed, there is also a very
high total morbidity level of numerous nutritional diseases affecting
various organ systems.
Marc Torel and Klaus Dieter Kammerer - a veterinarian and a scientific
journalist with medical training - believe that breeding programs and
industrially produced dog food in its present form cannot hope to bring
about any fundamental improvements in the incidence of canine hip dysplasia
because CHD is not heritable and because existing dog food does not prevent,
but is in fact the original cause of CHD. In these authors' view, canine hip
dysplasia is induced solely by malnutrition.
An article in the TU caused a worldwide sensation
In 1996, the respected German journal "Tierärztliche Umschau" (TU)
(Veterinary Review) published the continuation article "Topical notes on
canine hip dysplasia" by Marc Torel and Klaus Dieter Kammerer, in which
these authors traced the entire history of the development of canine hip
dysplasia. They claimed that the hereditary nature of CHD had never been
conclusively proven and is not supported by any objective evidence, and that
breeding programs over three decades were thus inevitably doomed to failure
(Tierärztliche Umschau, Volume 51, pp. 455 ff., 1996).
In the opinion of Torel/Kammerer, everything points to the probability that
CHD has an alimentary/hormonal etiology and pathogenesis associated with
malnutrition and increased production of somatotropin, triiodothyronine
(T3), thyroxine (T4), parathormone and insulin-like growth factor IGF-I in
the canine organism. The authors went on to draw conclusions regarding the
nutrition and keeping of dogs and gave recommendations for the prevention of
their skeletal diseases.
The essence of their argument is that CHD is of nutritional and hormonal
origin. Malnutrition causes increased production of growth hormone, the
thyroid hormones tri-iodothyronine and thyroxine, parathormone and
insulin-like growth factor in dogs. The authors give a detailed analysis of
the malnutrition and its adverse skeletal effects.
The book aroused great interest among veterinarians and met with a worldwide
response. The authors and the editors of TU have received consistently
positive feed-back from the USA, the whole of Europe, South Africa and
Australia.
The Thirty Years' War and its bitter struggles
These sensational "Topical notes" formed the basis for the Compendium "The
Thirty Years' War 1966-1996" published in 1997. The book, described with a
certain selfirony by the authors Torel/ Kammerer as a controversial
pamphlet, provided further data, facts and back-ground on the subject of
canine hip dysplasia, especially in the expanded and revised 2nd edition
published in March 1999 (ISBN 3-9807236-1-5).
The title is a deliberate reference to the religious war of 1618-1648 in
Central Europe, since the attempts to combat hip dysplasia in the
associations and societies, as described by the authors with more than a
touch of irony, were not only characterized by the ferocity of a military
campaign but, in the face of prevailing dogmatism, were also ultimately
futile.
With its "furor teutonicus" - its teutonic fury - the Compendium created an
uproar. The authors Torel/Kammerer were not only skilled in verbal
cut-and-thrust when deploying their arguments, but also brought up heavy
artillery to support their attack. The hostilities, with their attacks and
counter-attacks between the authors and their opponents in industry and
veterinary medicine, are a cause of ongoing concern to various official
agencies. The Bundestierärztekammer (BTK) (Federal German Veterinary
Authority), the VDH (German Kennel Club) and the Waltham/Effem company
boycotted the book on the basis of cartel agreements and suppressed reviews
and reports in the veterinary literature, the societies and the media.
When these measures failed to prevent the distribution of the Compendium by
word of mouth, Waltham/ Effem persuaded the BTK and the VDH to apply to
Dortmund District Court to have the book banned. When even a temporary
injunction obtained from the biased and prejudicially influenced 7th Civil
Division on 23 Sept.1999 failed to halt the sale of the book, the VDH
intrigued with the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of the Federal
Republic of Germany in Frankfurt and on 10 Feb. 2000 the book title was
deleted from the list of available books (VLB list) This meant that "The
Thirty Years' War" was effectively placed on the index of prohibited books,
since it was no longer available through the book trade, or only with great
difficulty. The first legal actions taken against the Association at
Frankfurt District Court have so far been unsuccessful due to behind the
scenes manipulation among the judges in Dortmund and Frankfurt resulting in
agreements preferential to the VDH and its backers. Meanwhile, however, a
promise has been extracted that the book will be reinstated and available
once more through the book trade.
On the basis of predetermined decisions irreconcilable with the existing
legal order and without any statutory basis, and in gross violation of the
law of civil procedure, the 7th Civil Division of Dortmund District Court on
16 Mar. 2000 granted the applications of the VDH to have the book banned,
thereby effectively curtailing the basic constitutional right of freedom of
the press. The proceedings are not yet finalized and the judgement does not
yet have the force of law, but is subject to judicial review by the Cartel
Division of Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court following an appeal.
On the other hand, Christa Bremer, 3rd President of the VDH, its Secretary
Bernhard Meyer and permanent legal adviser Claudia Marienfeldt are now under
investigation by Dortmund Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of making a
false statutory declaration and giving false evidence in the course of
proceedings. Investigative proceedings are also pending at the same Office
into the incorrect and biased presiding judge Becker of the 7th Civil
Division and his associate judges Altemeier and Meyer-Tegenthoff due to the
suspicion of perverting the course of justice. The presiding judge of Hamm
Higher Regional Court is also conducting a disciplinary review into
manipulation and suspicion of corruption in Dortmund.
Proceedings are ongoing at the Public Prosecutors Office, Division for
Commercial and Medical Crime in Mannheim, against the "trio infernale" of
BTK, VDH and Waltham/ Effem due to suspicion of fraud, unfair competition
and corruption with active and passive bribery. The computerized breeding
value estimation system of Dr. Beuing at the Institute of Animal Breeding
and Domestic Animal Genetics of Gießen University, as a piece of profitable
charlatanism, will be among the objects of the Public Prosecutor's
inquiries.
The "trio infernale" have no alternative but to defame and attempt to
completely discredit the authors Torel/Kammerer, whose charges, if proved
correct, would disgrace and compromise in an unprecedented manner the
leading figures of canine science, the veterinary profession and animal
foodstuffs industry for their blundering and charlatanism continuing over
decades. The Compendium "The Thirty Years' War" has become a full-blown
political issue.
The Error of the Millennium in Veterinary Medicine
One year later, on 20.09.2000, Klaus Dieter Kammerer published his new book
entitled
"The Error of the Millennium in Veterinary Medicine"
subtitled
"Malnutrition-induced Hip Dysplasia as a
Non-hereditary Skeletal Disease of Dogs"
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Sta a vedere che ho ragione io quando sostengo la pappa fatta in casa!!!???
Comunque il libro sarebbe interessante da leggere, sperando che non siano
solo polemiche.
Tra l'altro sarei curioso di sapere come spiegano l'altissima incidenza in
certe razze e la quasi immunità di altre...
e soprattutto come, dove e quando i componenti diventano dannosi, visto che,
almeno in teoria, dovrebbe trattarsi di farine di carne, pesce, vegetali e
altra roba naturale.
Ciao
--
Claudio & Skyppy

l'hanno mai letto....
CUT 
letto tutto, indubbiamente interessante ma... a mio avviso la
componente genetica c'è e come... mi spiego meglio, ok al ruolo
dell'alimentazione (ma 30-40 anni fa quando mangiavano casalingo.. chi
lastrava?, in James Herriot non si parlava di HD :-))
Sulla cosa della krukkonia che sono rigidi è verissimo... lo so x via
dei drahthaar, omettono dalle manifestazioni cani teoricamente C
(sanissimi) che lastrati qui sono poi dei B scarsi... E cmq continuano
a spuntare casi nonostante la rigidità ma....
se vai avanti nell'articolo... si parla di una sovraproduzione di
ormoni legata alla malnutrizione.. ora questo alla fine della fiera
non potrebbe avere un fondamento genetico? cioè non porebbe essere la
reazione di un cane predisposto vds uno non predisposto?
come mai i levrieri sono praticamente esenti e lo stesso non accade in
altre razze? insomma anche la morfologia è genetica in fondo :-)
detto questo l'articolo mi è piaciuto, faccio semplicemente l'avvocato
del diavolo. a mio avviso bisogna capire quanto influsce la componente
ambientale su un totale di 100... che so 80? 60? 20?...
cmq  tosti i tizi :-))
Rossella
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 l'hanno mai letto....
Certo che siamo messi veramente male...
In altri tempi il tuo post avrebbe provocato una valanga di
risposte...invece di miserelle due.
"o tempora, o mores!" :-))))))
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