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. 2019 Oct 12;33(6):2572–2586. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15609

Table 1.

Recorded deaths in cats that at study entry were diagnosed as apparently healthy or with preclinical HCM/HOCM

Apparently healthy cats HCM HOCM HCM/HOCM
n = 722 n = 430 n = 578 n = 1008
Cause of death Number of events (%) Number of events (%) Number of events (%) Number of events (%)
Cause‐specific mortality
Cancer 105 (14.5) 52 (12.1) 51 (8.8) 103 (10.2)
Chronic kidney disease 46 (6.4) 41 (9.5) 35 (6.1) 76 (7.5)
Chronic weight loss‐vomiting‐diarrhea‐anorexia 32 (4.4) 24 (5.6) 26 (4.5) 50 (5.0)
Other diseases* 47 (6.5) 42 (9.8) 33 (5.7) 75 (7.4)
Unknown causes 49 (6.8) 25 (5.8) 43 (7.4) 68 (6.7)
Overall mortality
Noncardiovascular causes 230 (31.9) 159 (37.0) 145 (25.1) 304 (30.2)
Cardiovascular causes 7 (1.0) 115 (26.7) 166 (28.7) 281 (27.9)
All causes** 286 (39.6) 299 (69.5) 354 (61.2) 653 (64.8)

Note: Data are arranged by the cause of death.

Abbreviations: HCM, nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; HOCM, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

*

Death related to anesthesia, respiratory diseases, central nervous system diseases, hepatobiliary diseases, toxicoses, endocrine diseases, trauma.

**

Includes all cardiovascular, noncardiovascular, and unknown causes of death.