Study on change of some hematological indicators in dog suffering from diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension

Abstract

The determination on change of some hematological indicators in diagnosing hypertension in the dogs suffering with diabetes mellitus was carried out by testing blood physiology, biochemistry of 68 dogs in the veterinary clinic, Can Tho University. The diagnostic method for hypertension in the diabetic dogs was based on the standard of ACVIM and JVIM (2007).
The studied results indicated that most the dogs suffering from diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension presented at the high levels of AST (27.94%), ALT (30.88%), glucose concentration (100.00%) and creatine (30.88%) in the blood. The blood physiological indicators of the tested dogs, including number of red blood cells (22.06%), hemoglobin (22.06%) were all lower than those of the healthy dogs. There was change in the white blood cell number. The white blood cell number of all 31 dogs (45.59%) was higher than that of the healthy dogs.