Avaliação metabólica em gatos com sobrepeso e obesos e sua associação com pressão arterial

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Vanessa Danielle de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Monografias da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://bdm.ufmt.br/handle/1/1168
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA; Obesidade; Felinos; Hipertensão; Dislipidemia; Obesity; Felines; Hypertension; Dyslipidemia

Obesity has been showing to increase incidence in cats, being associated with metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and the association of these alterations can trigger the onset of metabolic syndrome. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyze the serum levels of glucose, frutosamine, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, VLDL and ALT of cats and to identify a possible presence of metabolic syndrome in them, besides evaluating the occurrence of changes in pressure arterial. Thirty-seven cats were classified by ECC and morphometric measurements in 15 obese, 12 overweight and 10 controls. No study cat manifested metabolic syndrome. Only VLDL had a statistically significant difference (p<0.05) between the groups. It was concluded that obesity may not be associated with arterial hypertension and that more studies are needed to evaluate the metabolic alterations in overweight and obese cats.