Evaluating aging in cats: How to determine what is healthy and what is disease

J Bellows, S Center, L Daristotle… - Journal of Feline …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… numbers of healthy cats of various ages. When reference intervals developed for all cats
were compared, some important differences were identified for cats 7–10 years and cats ⩾11 …

Repeatability of quantitative sensory testing in healthy cats in a clinical setting with comparison to cats with osteoarthritis

ES Addison, DN Clements - Journal of feline medicine and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… Applying these thresholds to our EVF dataset revealed that no healthy cats had allodynia,
whereas 33% of OA cats in repeat 1 and 45% of OA cats in repeat 2 had thresholds suggestive …

Evaluation of a commercial in-house test kit for the semi-quantitative assessment of microalbuminuria in cats

EJ Mardell, AH Sparkes - Journal of Feline Medicine and …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
… Proteinuria was assessed in 100 randomly selected sick cats and 22 healthy cats by means
… (MA) semi-quantitatively. In addition the repeatability and reproducibility of the MA test was …

Quantitative assessment of velocities of the annulus of the left atrioventricular valve and left ventricular free wall in healthy cats by use of two-dimensional color tissue …

V Chetboul, CC Sampedrano, R Tissier… - American journal of …, 2006 - Am Vet Med Assoc
cats and has already been validated for use in this species.However, prospective studies in
large populations of healthy cats … a large population of healthy cats by use of quantitative 2-D …

Evaluation of a quantitatively derived value for assessment of muscle mass in clinically normal cats

LM Freeman, J Sutherland-Smith… - American journal of …, 2018 - Am Vet Med Assoc
… Therefore, the objective of the study reported here was to evaluate the ability of the VEMS
to be used as a quantitative assessment of muscle mass in clinically normal cats independent …

Intra-and inter-observer variability of quantitative parameters used in contrast-enhanced ultrasound of kidneys of healthy cats

A Hillaert, E Stock, S Favril, L Duchateau, JH Saunders… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
healthy cats at 3 different time points with a 7-day interval. The inter- and intra-observer
agreement was assessed … advised against having the quantitative assessment of renal perfusion …

Routine health screening: findings in apparently healthy middle-aged and old cats

D Paepe, G Verjans, L Duchateau… - Journal of Feline …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… This study is the first to describe health screening results in apparently healthy cats. The …
reflected the general cat population in Belgium. Domestic short- and longhair cats have been …

Correlation of renal histopathology with renal echogenicity in dogs and cats: an ex-vivo quantitative study

A Zotti, T Banzato, ME Gelain, C Centelleghe… - BMC veterinary …, 2015 - Springer
… The echogenicity of the renal cortex was quantitatively assessed by means of mean gray
value (MGV), and then histopathological analysis was performed. Statistical analysis to …

Psychometric validation of a general health quality of life tool for cats used to compare healthy cats and cats with chronic kidney disease

ES Bijsmans, RE Jepson, HM Syme… - Journal of veterinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Nevertheless, these limitations should not be reasons to give up on the quantitative
assessment of QoL in ill cats, especially when a psychometrically validated tool is available. When …

Development and initial validation of the Cat HEalth and Wellbeing (CHEW) Questionnaire: a generic health-related quality of life instrument for cats

LM Freeman, C Rodenberg… - Journal of feline …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
… owners and caregivers participated in the qualitative research, while 1303 cat owners
were included in the quantitative validation phase (development dataset, n = 648; validation …