Genetic diseases should be recognized in practice because they must be treated as chronic illnesses — not episodic diseases.
Source: Clinician’s Brief, December 2016.
Insurance claims and centralized hospital databases monitor the most frequent disease presentations, which helps veterinarians understand the most frequent genetic diseases. The most frequent conditions are complexly inherited and involve combinations of multiple genes and environmental factors.
- Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Lymphocytic or plasmacytic inflammatory disease
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy