Blood pressure in hyperthyroid cats before and after radioiodine treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hyperthyroid cats commonly have systemic hypertension, with a reported prevalence of 7% to 48%. Although hypertension might be expected to resolve once treatment restores euthyroidism, it can persist or only first develop after treatment.

Objectives

To determine the proportion of hyperthyroid cats with hypertension (systolic blood pressure [SBP] ≥160 mm Hg), persistence or first development of hypertension after successful radioiodine treatment, and correlation of post-treatment hypertension with azotemia or hypothyroidism.

Animals

Four hundred one hyperthyroid nonazotemic cats were included in the study.

Methods

Prospective, cross-sectional and before-and-after studies. All hyperthyroid cats had SBP measured by Doppler; 255 had SBP rechecked 6 month

SUBMITTER: Stammeleer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11099771 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature