Talk:Hip dysplasia
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Looking this up for human Atatomy & Physiology class. As it also applies to humans, the dog references seem... odd.
Actually canine hip dysplasia is more common than human dysplasia.
- It doesn't matter if it's more common in dogs. This article should be renamed Canine hip dysplasia and Hip dysplasia should be about humans. The condition is relatively common in Japan for women. Macgruder 08:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- I don't see why. On a google search of hip dysplasia, the first 16 hits are about the canine disease. It's a moot point anyway, as there is no article on the human form. --Joelmills 17:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Removal of recent edit
I removed the following statement recently added to the article:
- Vitamin C and vitamin E, with or without selenium, has been observed to consistently reduce and even relieve lameness from hip dysplasia within a few days.
As far as I know this is not true. Of course vitamins are essential in healing damaged tissue, but I don't think it is quite to that extent. A reference would be helpful. --Joelmills 21:55, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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- These are antioxidants, and will reduce free radicals. Whilst they can help generally in any bodily repair issue, I'm not aware that they can reverse macro-scale degenrative conditions in the way suggested. I second its removal pending reliable medical source that they are specifically effecatious rather than "just folklore".
[edit] Separate articles
I'm having problems distinguishing between text/information that applies to humans and text that applies to other animals. I suggest separating the species. Abstract1977 12:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- I believe the only part of the article that applies to humans is a little bit in the intro and a five line subsection entitiled Hip dysplasia in humans. That part of the article could be made its own article, but it would be very short, obviously. My opinion would be to leave it as it is. --Joelmills 00:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
