Age and Physical Activity Levels in Companion Dogs: Results From the Dog Aging Project.

ABSTRACT: While there has been an abundance of studies on the important relationship between physical activity and age in both dogs and humans, studies on dogs have primarily focused on how a dog's biological characteristics, such as their weight, affect the age-activity relationship. To date, there is little knowledge about how this relationship may be associated with contextual- and owner-level characteristics. We leveraged a large and novel data set from the Dog Aging Project (DAP) to investigate the extent to which the age-activity relationship is associated with certain dog and owner characteristics, namely dog size, owner age, and the environment in which they live. Dogs are a unique model for aging research as they are exposed to similar social and environmental elements as humans but have a

SUBMITTER: Lee H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9536450 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature