Shelter Medicine Journal Club - May 2022

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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. In the literature, energy requirements per body weight are reported to peak for kittens at what age?

5 weeks of age

8 weeks of age

4 weeks of age

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* 5. Which of the following kittens would not have been excluded from this study?

A kitten identified as being a 3-month-old

A kitten that was too ill on intake to go to foster care

A healthy 4-week-old singleton

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* 6. The average weight gains found in this study for litters with kittens <35 days of age and >35 days of age were:

13.2g/day and 19.2 g/day

10 g/day and 15 g/day

0.012 kg/day and 0.03 kg/day

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* 7. Which of the following was significantly associated with weight gain in both age groups of kittens?

Sex (male vs. female)

Lethargy (at least 1 day)

Diarrhea with score of >5 on at least 1 day

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* 8. What was hypothesized to have impacted the high growth rate and incidence of diarrhea in this study?

watered down milk replacer

overfeeding

lack of colostrum