Talk:Addison's disease in canines

Link Problem
Veterinary Information Network suffered a serious problem last evening; they have had to shut their site down for maintenance as a result. VIN hosts many of the veterinary conference proceeding papers we use as references-(WSAVA is one of them). Veterinary Partner is also a VIN site. VIN outage information As of now, there is no time frame re: when the sites will be back online. We hope (talk) 14:13, 28 January 2011 (UTC)


 * VIN sites now back online. We hope (talk) 17:43, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

fixing the article
I've made a pass through the article, simplifying the text a little, and removing duplication. since the disease is essentially the same in humans and dogs, there is no need to give here more than the very basic physiology. I removed two of the tables--the text is clear enough without them, and also simplified the color scheme of the remaining one. Myself, I wouldn't have done it as a table either, but that's just my own style--some people like them,

the next step is to simplify the references. For a topic so well covered by the literature, there is no need to use everything possible: For medical articles in particular, we normally use only the best and most accessible sources. Conferences, and material only available on proprietary sites, are not needed when there is excellent sourcing available from authoritative handbooks like Merck. If  references available from proprietary sites are used when they do not add something necessary, they serve as promotion. ''And it is not permitted to add such links from a site one is oneself associated with: the way to do it is to suggest them on the talk page, and others will add if they judge them appropriate. ''    DGG ( talk ) 17:09, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

One more thing is needed: statements are made about relative frequencies using words only: there need to be numbers. If you say it is uncommon among dogs overall, how uncommon is it actually? Commercial websites should normally not be used for external links. Use of a site maintained by a commercial entity is appropriate only when there is nothing more suitable, or it is recognized as authoritative.  DGG ( talk ) 17:09, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Found some statistics re: diagnosis. Added it with ref.  There's no agreement as to it being uncommon or not diagnosed, so added that also. We hope (talk) 18:00, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

No edit-war but

 * the mineralocorticoids are not affected by this and do not need replacement therapy.ref name=Brooks ref name=Canadian ref name=Merck

I deleted this again. If you want to put this info. in the article, or the references,please put it somewhere else but not in that sentence. The reason that I am deleting it from that sentence about abrupt withdrawal or withdrawal of steroids is that it does not belong there, it is potentially harmful information as it is not correct in that context-(the opposite of correct actually). I read all three of your references thoroughly and they do not say what the now deleted again-(for safety and correctness), says. -Although the information is worthwhile for somewhere else in the article, I just don't know where to put it.24.0.133.234 (talk) 18:59, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've moved the Brooks reference to cover the explanation re: what happens if the adrenal glands don't return to normal production. The mineralcortiocoid information re: atypical is covered further down in the article.We hope (talk) 19:37, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank-you. The way that it looked previously could have been interpreted that some steroids could be discontinued abruptly which is usually not recommended. But the references and the facts are interesting as far as choosing a steroid therapy in the first place.24.0.133.234 (talk) 13:17, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

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