RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS OF THE 28th ECVIM-CA CONGRESS

Thirty client‐owned cats with complete clinical, electro‐ and echocardiographic examinations, the Doppler systolic blood pressure below 160 mmHg and normal creatinine and thyroxine concentrations were enrolled in the study. Samples were collected for diagnostic purposes with research material appropriated from the excess of what was needed for diagnostics. The patients were assigned to the clinical HCM group (HCM, n=8), asymptomatic HCM group (A‐HCM, n=11) and the control group (n=11). The activity of oxidative stress enzymes and plasma TAC were determined using commercially available assay kits. After testing for normality with Shapiro‐Wilk test data were analyzed between the groups with one‐way ANOVA followed by Tukey post test or the non‐parametric Kruskal‐Wallis analysis followed by the post hoc Dunn's multiple comparisons test to assess statistically significant differences.