Jackson, Christy2015-10-292015-10-292007-07-12http://hdl.handle.net/10919/58835America's growing obesity problem has alarmed physicians and public health officials, and veterinarians have recently focused attention on fat dogs and cats. Now, a team of researchers in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech has determined that horses are also facing serious health risks because of obesity.text/htmlIn CopyrightVirginia-Maryland College of Veterinary MedicineUniversity researchers lead pioneering study in equine obesityPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations