Judy Cawdell-smith

Insulin resistance in horses is a complex pathophysiological condition that appears to underlie several chronic conditions often encompassed by the term "equine metabolic syndrome", including laminitis, obesity and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (Geor and Frank, 2009). There is much interest in the effect of insulin on bone metabolism, as the skeleton is increasingly regarded as an endocrine orga ...

Insulin resistance is becoming more prevalent among horses worldwide and is associated with a range of metabolic disturbances (Geor and Frank, 2009). Nutrition has a major impact on insulin kinetics and metabolism (Schmidt and Hickey, 2009), but most research has concentrated on the effect of dietary carbohydrate on insulin metabolism and much less emphasis has been placed on the effects of dietar ...

Equine Amnionitis and Foetal Loss (EAFL) was first described in 2004 following an outbreak of abortions in mares that had an unusual and consistent pattern of clinical and pathological signs. Examination of reports for all equine abortion cases that involved submission of diagnostic material to the Scone Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory between March and October 2004 indicated that EAFL was the mo ...