NLR and PNR — the clot-risk signals hiding in an ordinary blood panel

For an HCM caregiver, the most frightening word is the clot (CATE). Yet when we think of tools that gauge clot risk, only one comes to mind: the echocardiogram — expensive, specialist-dependent, months apart. Recent research points somewhere else. Inside the ordinary blood panel (CBC) your cat already gets, two risk signals are hiding — they just need dividing. Neutrophils, ly…