Understand Your Pet's Hypertension

Title: Understand Your Pet's Hypertension
Author: Ashish Jain

In simple words hypertension is the abnormal elevation of blood
pressure in the blood vessels. The main cause of it is the
narrowing down of arteries. But apart from this there can be
several other reasons too.

Hypertension does occur in cats and dogs. There is an
underlying cause of most of the hypertension problems in cats
and dogs. In cats, kidney disease is a major cause while in dogs
this cause is less prevalent.

If you want to maintain a proper health of your dog it is
essential for you to get him medically examined on a regular
basis. And diagnosing hypertension in your pet is very
important. But just measurement will not help, it is required
that the blood pressure has been measured correctly.

To measure blood pressure of cats and dogs, an inflatable cuff
is used. It is advised that to get the blood pressure reading
accurately, six readings are taken and the final result is taken
out by calculating the average of them. The first reading that
comes out is usually inaccurate. For measuring blood pressure in
pets, there is a machine that is automatic in nature and does
not even employ the use of a stethoscope. The cuff of the
machine is placed on your pets tail. This is done because you
will get the most accurate reading on an animals tail. The
machine has been named DINAMAP. For cats also you can use this
machine, but there is specifically a machine designed for them
which is known as Doppler.

Now you must be wondering what is the normal blood pressure of
your pet. The blood pressure in cats and dogs generally depends
on its breed. In effect, the breed factor plays a more important
role in case of dogs. Besides this, the age of the animal is
also crucial in determining the normal limits of the blood flow.
Just like humans, blood pressure in animals rises with age. For
cats the normal systolic/diastolic pressures are 160/100 mm Hg
and for dogs they are 147/83 mm Hg.

In animals you can measure blood pressure from three different
arterial. They are systolic, diastolic and the average mean of
both of them. The female dogs have a lower blood pressure than a
male dog.

Another important thing that you should know is that like cats
and humans, dogs rarely suffer from the disorder of hypertension
due to renal failures.

About The Author: The author writes about a number of different
topics. For more information on blood pressure visit
http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/ and also visit the
article page:
http://www.blood-pressure-updates.com/bp/blogs/bp-monitor.htm

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