An observational field study of porcine post-weaning diarrhea: clinical and microbiological findings, and fecal pH-measurements as a potential diagnostic tool

Table 6 Association between reduced skin elasticity and fecal consistency (n = 699)

Fecal consistency/Skin elasticity	Reduced skin elasticity	Odds ratio for reduced skin elasticity	95% CI	Predicted %	95% CI
Firm	11 (6%)	Baseline		4.0	1.4; 11.0
Soft and shaped	10 (9%)	1.96	0.75; 5.09	7.5	2.6; 19.7
Loose (diarrhea)	24 (18%)	3.01	1.27; 7.16	11.1	4.4; 25.3
Watery (diarrhea)	103 (38%)	9.33	4.23; 20.62	27.9	13.4; 49.1

The data was collected in outbreaks of post-weaning diarrhea in nine Danish commercial indoor herds weaning without medicinal zinc. Odds ratios and predicted percentages were estimate from a multilevel logistic model. The variance estimate for the random effect (herd) was 1.6 (95% CI 0.56; 4.75)

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