This study aimed to evaluate the associations between transition cow conditions and diseases TD with fertility in Holstein cows, and to compare analytic methods for doing so. Kaplan-Meier, Cox proportional hazard, and decision tree models were used to analyze the associations of TD with the pregnancy risk at 120 and 210 DIM from a 1-year cohort with 1946 calvings from one farm. The association between TD and fertility was evaluated as follows: 1 cows with TD whether complicated with another TD or not TD-all, versus healthy cows, and 2 cows with uncomplicated TD TD-single, versus cows with multiple TD TD+; complicated cases, versus healthy cows. The occurrence of twins, milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, ketosis, displaced abomasum, and clinical mastitis were recorded. Using Kaplan-Meier models, in primiparous cows the 120 DIM pregnancy risk was 62% (95% CI: 57–67 %) for healthy animals. This was not significantly different for TD-single (58%; 95% CI: 51–66 %) but was reduced for TD+ (45%; 95% CI: 33–60 %). Among healthy primiparous cows, 80% (95% CI: 75–84 %) were pregnant by 210 DIM, but pregnancy risk at that time was reduced for primiparous cows with TD-single (72%; 95% CI: 65–79 %) and TD+ (62%; 95% CI: 49–75 %). In healthy multiparous cows, the 120 DIM pregnancy risk was 53% (95% CI: 49–56 %), which was reduced for TD-single (36%; 95% CI: 31–42 %) and TD+ (30%; 95% CI: 24–38 %). The 210 DIM pregnancy risk for healthy multiparous cows was 70% (95% CI: 67–72 %), being higher than the 210 DIM pregnancy risk for multiparous cows with TD-single (47%; 95% CI: 42–53 %) or TD+ (46%; 95% CI: 38–54 %). Cows with TD-all presented similar pregnancy risk estimates as for TD + . Cox proportional hazards regressions provided similar magnitudes of effects as the Kaplan-Meier estimates. Survival analysis and decision tree models identified parity as the most influential variable affecting fertility. Both modeling techniques concurred that TD + had a greater effect than TD-single on the probability of pregnancy at 120 and 210 DIM. Decision trees for individual TD identified that displaced abomasum affected fertility at 120 DIM in primiparous while metritis was the most influential TD at 120 and 210 DIM for multiparous cows. The data were too sparse to assess multiple interactions in multivariable Cox proportional hazard models for individual TD. Machine learning helped to explore interactions between individual TD to study their hierarchical effect on fertility, identifying conditional relationships that merit further investigation.

Assessment of associations between transition diseases and reproductive performance of dairy cows using survival analysis and decision tree algorithms / O. Bogado Pascottini, M. Probo, S.J. Leblanc, G. Opsomer, M. Hostens. - In: PREVENTIVE VETERINARY MEDICINE. - ISSN 0167-5877. - 176:(2020 Mar), pp. 104908.1-104908.10. [10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.104908]

Assessment of associations between transition diseases and reproductive performance of dairy cows using survival analysis and decision tree algorithms

M. Probo
Secondo
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2020

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the associations between transition cow conditions and diseases TD with fertility in Holstein cows, and to compare analytic methods for doing so. Kaplan-Meier, Cox proportional hazard, and decision tree models were used to analyze the associations of TD with the pregnancy risk at 120 and 210 DIM from a 1-year cohort with 1946 calvings from one farm. The association between TD and fertility was evaluated as follows: 1 cows with TD whether complicated with another TD or not TD-all, versus healthy cows, and 2 cows with uncomplicated TD TD-single, versus cows with multiple TD TD+; complicated cases, versus healthy cows. The occurrence of twins, milk fever, retained placenta, metritis, ketosis, displaced abomasum, and clinical mastitis were recorded. Using Kaplan-Meier models, in primiparous cows the 120 DIM pregnancy risk was 62% (95% CI: 57–67 %) for healthy animals. This was not significantly different for TD-single (58%; 95% CI: 51–66 %) but was reduced for TD+ (45%; 95% CI: 33–60 %). Among healthy primiparous cows, 80% (95% CI: 75–84 %) were pregnant by 210 DIM, but pregnancy risk at that time was reduced for primiparous cows with TD-single (72%; 95% CI: 65–79 %) and TD+ (62%; 95% CI: 49–75 %). In healthy multiparous cows, the 120 DIM pregnancy risk was 53% (95% CI: 49–56 %), which was reduced for TD-single (36%; 95% CI: 31–42 %) and TD+ (30%; 95% CI: 24–38 %). The 210 DIM pregnancy risk for healthy multiparous cows was 70% (95% CI: 67–72 %), being higher than the 210 DIM pregnancy risk for multiparous cows with TD-single (47%; 95% CI: 42–53 %) or TD+ (46%; 95% CI: 38–54 %). Cows with TD-all presented similar pregnancy risk estimates as for TD + . Cox proportional hazards regressions provided similar magnitudes of effects as the Kaplan-Meier estimates. Survival analysis and decision tree models identified parity as the most influential variable affecting fertility. Both modeling techniques concurred that TD + had a greater effect than TD-single on the probability of pregnancy at 120 and 210 DIM. Decision trees for individual TD identified that displaced abomasum affected fertility at 120 DIM in primiparous while metritis was the most influential TD at 120 and 210 DIM for multiparous cows. The data were too sparse to assess multiple interactions in multivariable Cox proportional hazard models for individual TD. Machine learning helped to explore interactions between individual TD to study their hierarchical effect on fertility, identifying conditional relationships that merit further investigation.
Fertility; Machine learning; Transition period; Animals; Cattle; Cattle Diseases; Decision Trees; Female; Germany; Incidence; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Machine Learning; Pregnancy; Prevalence; Proportional Hazards Models; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Animal Husbandry; Fertility
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mar-2020
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