Table 1. Profile and echocardiographic data of the healthy controls and cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

Group		Healthy cats	Cats with HCM
Profile data
	Number	n=20	n=45
	Sex (M/F)	8/12	25/20
	Weight (kg), mean ± SD	3.06 ± 1.61	3.60 ± 1.4
	Age (years), mean ± SD	4.8 ± 4.01	7.8 ± 2.90
Breeds (n)
	Persian	10	30
	DSH	6	15
	Siamese	4	0
Echocardiographic data (mean ± SD)
	LVDD (cm)	1.40 ± 0.14	1.26 ± 0.06
	LVDS (cm)	0.8 ± 0.48	1.08 ± 0.55
	IVSD (cm)	0.38 ± 0.08	0.62 ± 0.11
	IVSS (cm)	0.48 ± 0.08	0.95 ± 0.14
	LVWD (cm)	0.42 ± 0.06	0.79 ± 0.13
	LVWS (cm)	0.50 ± 0.04	0.95 ± 0.11
	LA/Ao	1.12 ± 0.08	1.58 ± 0.26

n: number of cats; SD: standard deviation; DSH: domestic short hair; LVDD: left ventricular end-diastolic dimension; LVDS: left ventricular end-systolic dimension; IVSD: interventricular septum end-diastolic thickness; IVSS: interventricular septum end-systolic thickness; LVWD: left ventricular wall end-diastolic thickness; LVWS: left ventricular wall end-systolic thickness; LA/Ao: left atrial to aortic root ratio.