To Anne Charboneau:
 
>Epidemiologic precisions:
>When Dr Williams wrote : "we have a 30 % incidence in intact ferrets"
>it doesn't mean that 30% of the adrenal cases were in intact ferrets but
>that 30% of the intact ferrets have adrenal problem.
 
     I suppose the problem, then is how I expressed this finding.  I was
referring to the approximately 30% of intact ferrets (out of 103 in the
study group) which had adrenal disease.  I don't think that I could (or
would) make a blanket statement that 30% of intact ferrets have this problem
- I don't think there is any way to know (how would you get a statistically
sound sample?)
 
     Also regarding chromium picolinate - I have heard of its use, but I
don't have any experience with it....
 
Bruce H. Williams, DVM         Dept. of Veterinary Pathology
Chief Pathologist, AccuPath    Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
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[Posted in FML issue 1226]