信不信，你的宠物也会有得高血压！猫和狗的高血压几乎都是继发性的，这意味着它是由一个潜在的疾病或疾病引起的。由于继发性高血压是一种明确信号，说明某些脏器发生病变。血压筛查是一个重要的方式来发现你的宠物的其他健康问题，如急性肾脏病或甲状腺功能亢进症。如果疾病被发现在早期阶段，血压筛查可以帮助防止严重的器官损伤。
认识到血压筛查的价值，现在越来越多的兽医会在日常宠物体检的时候进行血压筛查。它也比其他的介入式检查方法更容易评估你的宠物的血压健康。特别是对于成熟和老年动物有较高的发病率，导致继发性高血压疾病的发病率。兽医指南多年来一直在推广血压检查多年的好处。
在以前，获取血压无创（无针戳到动脉）对猫和狗是一个艰苦的过程，需要对测试部位剃毛，利用超声多普勒刚得到的收缩压。但这些日子已经过去了！顺泰多年来一直提供兽药OEM NIBP血压测量技术，并且专门为猫和狗的特性而指定的血压测试校验程序----只是需要一次测试即可得到所有BP读数（收缩压，舒张压，平均压，心率）并且完全不需要对动物剃毛！
Believe it or not, your pet can have high blood pressure too! That being said, the significance of this is a bit different than it would be for you and me. Hypertension in cats and dogs is almost always secondary, which means it is caused by an underlying condition or disease. Because secondary hypertension is a signal that something else is wrong, blood pressure screening is a great way to discover other health issues in your pet such as acute kidney disease or hyperthyroidism. BP screening can help to prevent serious organ damage if a condition or disease is caught in its early stages.
Recognizing the value of BP screening, more and more vet practices now include BP screening in annual pet physicals. It’s also much easier to assess your pet’s BP than to perform other more invasive tests. This is especially true for mature and geriatric animals which have a higher incidence of diseases that cause secondary hypertension. Veterinary guidelines have been touting the benefits of BP checks for many years.
In the old days, obtaining blood pressure non-invasively (without a needle poked into an artery) on cats and dogs was a laborious process that involved shaving the fur from the BP site and using Doppler ultrasound just to get the systolic pressure. (I’m sure Fido loved this!) But these days are over! SunTech has been providing the veterinary market with OEM NIBP vet technology for several years – technology developed specifically for cats and dogs. And the best part for you and your pet – just one screening provides all BP readings (SYS, DIA, MAP, HR) and no shaving is required!
We get our blood pressure checked virtually every time we go to our primary care physician. It’s that important. So next time you go to the vet, do your pet a favor and ask about BP screening!