Effect of exercise on gastric health in field retrievers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Exercise-induced gastrointestinal disease (EIGD) has been reported in all domestic athletes. In dogs and humans, EIGD is most commonly associated with ultra-endurance racing sled dogs and marathon/triathlon competitors, respectively, suggesting that the syndrome is specifically a function of prolonged exercise. However, EIGD is also common in horses that exercise for brief periods, and more recently, EIGD has been identified in Labrador retrievers that perform off-leash explosive detection patrols. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that EIGD could be induced in retrievers performing competition-style retrieves. Gastric endoscopy and histopathological examination of gastric biopsies were performed on 10 healthy retrievers before and 24 h after a series of multi-set retrieves totalling over 5 km. Although the exercise challenge resulted in a small but statistically significant increase in gastric endoscopy severity score, it did not result in a higher prevalence of clinically-significant gastric disease or changes in gastric histopathology. We conclude that competitive retrieving is unlikely to induce clinically-significant gastric disease in healthy dogs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".