{"topic_id":"evidence_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Feline lower urinary tract disease — dietary management — representative studies (Europe PMC)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Europe PMC REST search (europepmc.org), query 'feline lower urinary tract disease diet', 1283 hits, pulled 2026-07-21\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet_2026-07-21.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-21\ntokens_estimated: 220\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 30\n  passed: 30\n  date: 2026-07-21\nsource_document: \"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42000031\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Europe PMC\"\n  title: \"Feline lower urinary tract disease — dietary management — representative studies (Europe PMC)\"\n  url: \"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42000031/\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-21\"\n  ref: \"PMID 42000031\"\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# Feline lower urinary tract disease — dietary management — representative studies (Europe PMC)\n\nSource: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search, query \"feline lower urinary tract disease diet\", 1283 hits (2026-07-21). Each entry is a first-hand peer-reviewed study; the abstract opening is quoted verbatim from the publisher abstract. Six representative studies below.\n\n1. PMID 42000031 — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A 2026 Veterinary Journal study used nationwide Chinese pet-insurance data for a retrospective survival analysis of feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD), a common multifactorial syndrome with limited prior data from Asia; the excerpt is cut off before the survival results.\n2. PMID 41965667 — Aerococcus mictus as a cause of feline urinary tract infection: a case report. (BMC veterinary research, 2026). Abstract (opening): BACKGROUND: Bacterial urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a noteworthy cause of lower urinary tract disease both in humans and companion animals, especially in patients with *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n3. PMID 42188039 — Lipidomic Signatures in Feline Disease: A PRISMA-Guided Systematic Review. (Metabolites, 2026). Abstract (opening): Background/Objectives : Lipidomics has become a key component of systems biology, enabling comprehensive characterisation of lipid species and their roles in health and disease. *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n4. PMID 41641807 — The hitchhiker's guide to feline xanthinuria. (Journal of feline medicine and surgery, 2026). Abstract (opening): Feline xanthinuria is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of purine metabolism due to genetic mutations in the xanthine dehydrogenase ( XDH ) gene. It is characterised by *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n5. PMID 42187200 — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A 2026 Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery multicentre retrospective study of 601 male cats (2020–2024) compared azotaemia prevalence and time to resolution between initial and recurrent urethral obstruction (UO); the excerpt is cut off before the comparison results.\n6. PMID 42022391 — From pathogenesis to prevention: an update on the management of obesity and its associated comorbidities in cats. (Frontiers in veterinary science, 2026). Abstract (opening): Overweight and obesity represent the most common nutritional disorder in domestic cats and constitute a significant global health issue. In this review, we synthesize current *[CC BY — Open Access, verbatim with attribution.]*\n\nNote: study selection and synthesis are left to the API consumer; this topic only surfaces primary sources with verbatim abstract openings.\n\nSource text: `pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet_2026-07-21.txt` (Europe PMC REST, 2026-07-21).\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/41641807/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41965667/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42000031/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42022391/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42187200/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42188039/\n","sources":["Europe PMC — Feline lower urinary tract disease — dietary management — representative studies (Europe PMC) (retrieved 2026-07-21)"],"source":{"authority":"Europe PMC","title":"Feline lower urinary tract disease — dietary management — representative studies (Europe PMC)","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42000031/","retrieved":"2026-07-21","ref":"PMID 42000031","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42000031","verification_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet_2026-07-21.txt"},"source_document":"Veterinary / medical evidence (guideline or study) — PMID 42000031","source_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_feline_lower_urinary_tract_diet_2026-07-21.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T2","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"mixed","display_grade":"B"},"tokens_estimated":220,"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."}