Routine measurement of blood pressure in animals is an age related veterinarian decision.

thank you Martin Hofmeister

Estimation of blood pressure was realized using the oscilometric method in dogs and cats.

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Dear Haydar,

Maybe the following paper will help you:

Kurtz TW, Griffin KA, Bidani AK, Davisson RL, Hall JE; AHA Council on High Blood Pressure Research, Professional and Public Education Subcommittee. Recommendations for blood pressure measurement in animals: summary of an AHA scientific statement from the Council on High Blood Pressure Research, Professional and Public Education Subcommittee. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2005;25(3):478-9. http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/25/3/478.long

Best wishes from Germany,

Martin

Actually it is based on your research, Is the blood pressure measurements in animals was the aim of your study? If it was yes, so you have to make a routine examination.TQ

Hi Hayder , I have no idea about it. But the question seems to very interesting to me. Is there is any entity like hypertension in young in animals? Is hypertension in animals like dogs is a manifestation of aging or atherosclerosis? Can hypertension be a manifestation of asymptomatic kidney disease in animals? If answer of all these are yes, then it seems routine BP measurement may be useful.. Thanks

Hi Hyder,,, continuing the discussion, previously BP measurement was difficult but now a days various noninvasive instrument is available that can measure BP in animals easily. Bp measurement often routinely not done because preventive medicine is not well developed in vetenary science. So by early detection of hypertension in animals by routine BP measurement can great influence in preventing cardiovascular mortality in animals. More over in animals majority of hypertension may be secondary to some disease like kidney disease, so by early detection of hypertension may detect early stage of kidney disease. On the other side early detection of hypotension may prevent future development of shock and it's consequences in animals. So routine BP measurement may be very useful also in animals like humans... Thanks

Hi Hyder, from pysiological point of view, there is no difference between treating humans and other mamals like dogs or cats. As Biswajit pointed out correctly, preventjon measures are less common in veterinary. Since Oscillometric BP measurements are easy to perform on animals, there is no reason why not to do them and maybe detect early signs of kidney disease or other cardiovascular risk.

Without a doubt!!!!

Hi, dear Hayder

I think this examination depends on the nature of the food for the animal if it is a meat or plant from here it is possible to test the usefulness or not

I don't think it is necessary in routine examination of all animals. It can be performed easily in small animals, but in large animal? I do not know.

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BP measurements like all Medical tests are not an end in itself. The decision to do such test is weather it's benefits exceeds it's cost in money and suffering to the patient. Since BP measurement is very low cost as it is short, non invasive and easy to perform with inexpensive equipment, the benefits of early detection far exceeds it's cost.

I would like to add my two cents. Non-invasive BP methods are "easy" to incorporate into a clinical evaluation, but show a "bias". That is, such methods might be more sensitive to detect a drop in BP, than an elevation; this is my direct/in-house experience. Oscillometric BP is a newer non-invasive method, but prone to the same bias as other non-invasive methods. As with any method, there are caveats, so the investigator needs to be aware of the technical limitations. The Kurtz et al (2005) is a good paper, and aimed at academic investigators that may utilize non-invasive BP methods to phenotype transgenic or KO mice. If the hypothesis to be tested requires a quantitative assessment, non-invasive BP lack sensitivity. When I read scientific literature that incorporates such methods, I tend to automatically dismiss conclusions, unless the paper (lab) provides some relevant positive control.