15분 읽기 고양이연구소 리서치팀 2026-08-07지표·검사 처방식 및 질병별 식단 관리
There's a value on the lab report that quietly gets skipped: UPC.
Take two cats with the same creatinine. Same stage, similar phosphorus. But one has a UPC of 0.15 and the other 0.6.
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Cats with a UPC above 0.4 have roughly a 4-fold higher risk of death than cats below 0.2.
At the same stage, with the same creatinine.
And yet it often isn't measured unless you ask.…
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