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Diabetes mellitus in cats.

Rand JS, Marshall RD

Centre for Companion Animal Health, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. j.rand@uq.edu.au

Feline diabetes is a multifactorial disease with genetic and environmental factors, including diet, excess body weight, and physical inactivity, involved in its pathogenesis. Although type 2 diabetes is most common in cats, most cats are insulin-dependent at the time of diagnosis. If good glycemic control can be achieved early after diagnosis, a substantial proportion of diabetic cats go into clinical remission. Diabetic remission may be facilitated by using a low-carbohydrate-high-protein diet combined with a long-acting insulin, such as glargine, administered twice daily. Rather than just controlling clinical signs, these new treatment modalities make curing feline diabetes a realistic goal for practitioners.

Published 3 January 2005 in Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract, 35(1): 211-24.
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