Bloodhound Health
Statistics on the Bloodhound Breed from the OFA website - Less than 50% tested "normal" (clear) for DM; over 1/4 of hips abnormal; and almost 1/5 of thyroids equivocal.
Can be found by going to OFA website (www.offa.org), Education, Disease Statistics, Search for Statistics, Search by Breed--Bloodhound.
| Registry | Rank | Evaluations | Percent Abnormal |
Percent Normal |
Percent Carrier |
Percent Equivocal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANCED CARDIAC | 13 | 134 | 3.0% | 93.3% | .0 | 3.7% |
| BASIC CARDIAC | n/a | 31 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | .0 |
| CONGENITAL CARDIAC | 32 | 894 | 0.7 | 98.2 | 0.0 | 1.1 |
| DEGENERATIVE MYELOPATHY | 29 | 619 | 5.3 | 54.9 | 39.7 | .0 |
| DENTITION DATABASE | N/A | 6 | .0 | 100.0 | .0 | .0 |
| ELBOW | 33 | 1663 | 14.8 | 84.8 | .0 | .4 |
| EYES | 8 | 80 | 6.3 | 92.5 | .0 | .0 |
| HIPS | 25 | 3454 | 26.2 | 71.7 | .0 | 2.1 |
| PATELLA | 59 | 174 | 2.9 | 97.1 | .0 | .0 |
| SHOULDER | N/A | 9 | .0 | 100.0 | .0 | .0 |
| THYROID | 37 | 209 | 5.3 | 77.5 | .0 | 17.2 |