Elbow Dysplasia

[woland77]

Originally Posted by serewolf

A harmful environmental factor in the pup is genetically able in a healthy dog as HD regards, to provoke a arthrosic degeneration of the hip (owed to traumas and bacterial infections, ect ect), very similar to the HD for symptoms, but well distinguishable in the x-ray examination.

Paula, this is taken and translate from my post of yesterday and those words are taken from e-mail of Dott. Vezzoni, president of ufficial reading central FSA (the first central in Italy), and the same word i have heard at Dott. Pedrani (CELEMASCHE, second and last central in Italy) at "HD conference" on december 2008.

Arthrosic degeneration can't have influence on dysplasya official result

Many people (not you) don't know very well HD from scientific point wiew, is dangerous to say: "Hereditability of HD: 20% to 40%" is better, and more correct to say: "A dysplasic dog inherits his disease from genetic/hereditary way (100%), but the modulation, expression and seriousness are controlled at 60-80% by environmental factors"