Observation about phosphorus and protein supply in cats and dogs prior to the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (original) (raw)

2018, Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition

For the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in dogs and cats, different values are given in the literature. For dogs, the true prevalence is reported to be as high 0.37%, increasing to about 5.79% in dogs older than 12 years (O'Neill et al., 2013). For cats, this disease complex is reported even more often (31%-32% prevalence, Lulich, Osborne, O'Brien, & Polzin, 1992; 7.5; % in all feline patients in Banfield hospitals older than 12 years, Lefebvre, 2011; as high as 50% in a randomly selected group of cats for a trial on degenerative joint disease, Marino, Lascelles, Vaden, Gruen, & Marks, 2014) and it is also a main cause of death (Grauer, 2005). For both dogs and cats, ageing increases the likelihood to develop this serious dis