Diabetes mellitus in dogs: searching a relationship between obesity and hyperglycemia

Abstract

Studies on Diabetes Mellitus in dogs are of extreme importance, since a more profound understanding allow the prophylaxis of disease can be put into practice. In that way, as a consequence, the treatments would have better results. In addition, the dissemination of information can lower down the numbers of cases in a long term. Besides that, the objective of this article was to evaluate the existence or not of the relation between hyperglycemia and obesity in dogs. Informative leaflets were distributed, providing some days for owners of dogs take their animals, for free, to the veterinary clinic of the UNIP - Campus of Bauru, for it was made an analysis of their animals. These owners took their animals without a fasting for at least 8 hours and answered some questions relating to nutrition and physical activity of their dogs. Complementary parameters were used to characterize obesity, but even so, the animals showed no relationship between obesity and hyperglycemia. In possession of more recent data from the literature, we verified that the results obtained were in agreement with a different etiology for the development of diabetes in dogs, and that is not related to obesity and insulin resistance.