Table 3.
Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in feline study populations
| Study Population Groups | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AH | HCM | HOCM | HCM/HOCM | |||||
| n = 722 | n = 430 | n = 578 | n = 1008 | |||||
| Cardiovascular morbidity | Number events | % Normal | Number events | % HCM | Number events | % HOCM | Number events | % HCM/HOCM |
| CHF | 6 | 0.83 | 106 | 24.7 | 138 | 23.9 | 244 | 24.2 |
| ATE | 5 | 0.69 | 41 | 9.5 | 76 | 13.2 | 117 | 11.6 |
| Sudden death | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2.1 | 13 | 2.3 | 22 | 2.2 |
| All cardiovascular death | 7 | 0.97 | 115 | 26.7 | 166 | 28.7 | 281 | 27.9 |
Abbreviations: ATE, arterial thromboembolism; CHF, congestive heart failure; HCM, nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; HOCM, obstructive hypertrophic HCM, nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; HOCM, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.