Risk Factors
- Age: Uncommon in cats younger than 1 year of age. Most commonly occurs in cats within the 2 to 5 age group.
- Sex: Male and neutered male cats are at greater risk for urethral obstruction than females because their urethra is longer and narrower. Nonobstructive FLUTD occur equally in males and females.
- Dehydration
- Diet
- Obesity
The disorder may be caused by a combination of these factors. For example, a diet which is high in magnesium or other minerals and high in pH, combined with inadequate intake of water may lead to favorable conditions for precipitating buildup in the lower urinary tract. However, these factors affect individual cats differently.
Read more about this topic: Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease
Famous quotes containing the words risk and/or factors:
“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence,—luxury, scepticism, weariness and superstition,—are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)