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The data used for SPM included comorbidities and intervals between the diagnoses of internal medicine diseases. Additionally, we estimated the 3-year risk of developing an additional disease after the initial diagnosis of a commonly occurring veterinary internal medicine disease using logistic regression. We identified 547 canine patients diagnosed with \u2265 1 internal medicine disease. The SPM-based analysis assessed comorbidities and intervals for each of the five most common internal medical diseases, including hyperadrenocorticism, myxomatous mitral valve disease, canine atopic dermatitis, chronic kidney disease, and chronic pancreatitis. The highest values of the association rule were 3.01%, 6.02%, 3.9%, 4.1%, and 4.84%, and the shortest intervals were 1.64, 13.14, 5.37, 17.02, and 1.7 days, respectively. This study proposes that SPM is an effective technique for identifying common associations and temporal relationships between internal medicine diseases, and can be used to assess the probability of additional admission due to the development of the subsequent disease that may be diagnosed in canine patients. 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