Presencia de diabetes mellitus en pacientes felinos atendidos en una clínica veterinaria

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine disease in cats, with early diagnosis and proper treatment has a good prognosis, is caused by an alteration in the secretion of insulin by the pancreas, may also present a resistance to the action of the same. Its main sign is the increase of glucose called hyperglycemia, it is also characterized by striking signs such as polydipsia, polyuria, weight loss despite increased food intake. In feline patients we can have two types of presentation, but the one found in its majority is type 2 diabetes, very similar to that of humans. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine the presence of this pathology considering for the study a total of 53 feline patients attended at the VIVET veterinary clinic in the city of Loja in the period from November to December 2023; the use of the veterinary glucometer allowed measuring hyperglycemia in the cats under study, the patients positive for hyperglycemia were evaluated in preprandial and postprandial intervals, a presence of 7.55% (4/53) animals positive for hyperglycemia was obtained. The statistical analysis used was the chi-square goodness-of-fit test, considering p values less than or equal to 0.05 as statistically significant. The results obtained did not show a statistical relationship between the disease and the variables under study: sex, age, breed, reproductive status and feeding.

• Hlavní autor: Riofrio Nole, Richar Michael (author)
• Médium: bachelorThesis
• Jazyk: spa
• Vydáno: 2023
• Témata: GLUCOSA; PATOLOGÍA; HIPERGLUCEMIA; INSULINA
• On-line přístup: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/28513