{"topic_id":"evidence_feline_cardiac_diet","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_feline_cardiac_diet\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Evidence cluster — dietary management of cardiac disease in cats (peer-reviewed, PubMed)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"PubMed E-utilities (NCBI) efetch, first-hand peer-reviewed abstracts, pulled 2026-07-23\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/pubmed_feline_cardiac_diet_2026-07-23.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-23\ntokens_estimated: 791\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 30\n  passed: 30\n  date: 2026-07-23\nsource_document: \"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42110576\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Europe PMC\"\n  title: \"Evidence cluster — dietary management of cardiac disease in cats (peer-reviewed, PubMed)\"\n  url: \"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42110576/\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-23\"\n  ref: \"PMID 42110576\"\n  doc_type: \"official PDF\"\n  needs_review: false\ncopyright_note: \"Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY) studies retained verbatim with attribution; non-Open-Access studies paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten).\"\nlicense: mixed\nauthority_tier: T2\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T2:oa-repo\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n\n# Evidence: dietary management of cardiac disease in cats\n\nSource: PubMed E-utilities (NCBI) efetch — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-07-23. Query cluster: `feline cat cardiac disease diet taurine nutrition`. 6 representative studies are extracted below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.\n\n## Studies\n- **PMID 42110576 (2026, Case reports in veterinary medicine)** — Dilated Cardiomyopathy Phenotype With Global (Four-Chamber) Involvement in a Cat: Echocardiographic, Pathological, Histopathological, and Immunohistochemical Findings... An 8-year-old castrated male Exotic Shorthair cat was referred due to the onset of abdominal effusion. Echocardiography revealed a dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype affecting both ventricles, associated with biatrial dilatation, left atrial *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n- **PMID 40723483 (2025, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI)** — Grain-Free Diets for Dogs and Cats: An Updated Review Focusing on Nutritional Effects and Health Considerations... In recent years, grain-free pet food has gained increasing attention due to its widespread promotion as a natural and hypoallergenic diet. This trend has prompted us to conduct an in-depth critical assessment of the nutritional *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n- **PMID 38141434 (2023, Journal of veterinary cardiology : the official journal of the European Society of Veterinary Cardiology)** — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A case report described DCM of possible dietary origin in an 11-year-old spayed female domestic shorthair cat with severe DCM and congestive heart failure; the cat had eaten cat foods high in pulses (e.g., peas, lentils, chickpeas). (Source excerpt truncated at abstract opening.)\n- **PMID 36803067 (2023, Journal of feline medicine and surgery)** — Comparison of echocardiography, biomarkers and taurine concentrations in cats eating high- or low-pulse diets... There are ongoing investigations into diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs, but there has been minimal investigation into possible diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy in cats. The objective of this study was to compare cardiac *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n- **PMID 34963075 (2021, Journal of veterinary cardiology : the official journal of the European Society of Veterinary Cardiology)** — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A survey of veterinary cardiologists plus a retrospective case review examined feline dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and a possible association with diet; part one surveyed cardiologists on recent experience with cats diagnosed with DCM. (Source excerpt truncated at abstract opening.)\n- **PMID 38084870 (2023, Journal of veterinary internal medicine)** — Long-term safety of dietary salt: A 5-year ProspEctive rAndomized bliNded and controlled stUdy in healThy aged cats (PEANUT study)... High-salt diets promote urine dilution and decrease urolithiasis risk. Prospectively evaluate the safety of chronic high dietary salt intake (randomized controlled trial). Twenty research colony neutered, healthy aged cats *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n\nSource text: `pdf-raw/evidence/pubmed_feline_cardiac_diet_2026-07-23.txt` (PubMed first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-07-23).\n\n## License & attribution\n\nMixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC /\nCC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific\nCC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries\n(numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34963075/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36803067/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38084870/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38141434/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40723483/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42110576/\n","sources":["Europe PMC — Evidence cluster — dietary management of cardiac disease in cats (peer-reviewed, PubMed) (retrieved 2026-07-23)"],"source":{"authority":"Europe PMC","title":"Evidence cluster — dietary management of cardiac disease in cats (peer-reviewed, PubMed)","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42110576/","retrieved":"2026-07-23","ref":"PMID 42110576","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42110576","verification_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/pubmed_feline_cardiac_diet_2026-07-23.txt"},"source_document":"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42110576","source_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/pubmed_feline_cardiac_diet_2026-07-23.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T2","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"mixed","display_grade":"B"},"tokens_estimated":834,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}