Research Communications of the 27(th) ECVIM-CA Congress: Intercontinental, Saint Julian's, Malta, 14th to 16th September 2017

Disclosures: Disclosures to report. Some authors are employed by the Texas A&M GI lab which offers tests on a fee basis. The study was funded by grants from the Comparative Gastroenterology Society and Naniboujou Research Legacy. We have previously shown that dogs with a protein losing enteropathy have significantly lower concentrations of the major vitamin D metabolite, 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). Furthermore, we have shown that serum 25(OH)D concentrations negatively correlate with extent of inflammation in dogs with a chronic enteropathy (CE). In addition, low vitamin D status has been found to be a negative prognostic marker in dogs with a CE.