Thread: HCM gene testing- are we wasting our time?

Yes it is a shame that research is always profit driven......I would also be interested in how diet and obesity affects outcome for feline HCM! But that's another story, and another piece of research that wont get done. Although the cat food industry might be interested.....

NCarver- it is indeed encouraging that heterozygous status was not strongly associated with LVH, although as you say, some of the cats weren't massively old. I'm really sorry to hear about your cat which died through HCM- I only hope that Sylvester's murmur does not worsen (my boss suggested I put him on beta blockers early, but he is only drawing from experience with humans.... but then it seems like this is all the information we have).