“Evidence that dog ownership protects against the onset of disability in an older community-dwelling Japanese population,” by Yu Taniguchi, Satoshi Seino, Bruce Headey, Toshiki Hata, Tomoko Ikeuchi, Takumi Abe, Shoji Shinkai, and Akihiko Kitamura (PLoS ONE 17(2): e0263791. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263791, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 13p.).
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