Vodka has no added sugar in it. It also shouldn't have residual sugars, like wine does. This means you can think of vodka as a pure mixture of 40% ethanol, 60% water. There is a very small trace amount of cogeners and other chemicals in it, from impurities in the distilling.
IDEXX Laboratories is in the process of rolling out a new test that they say âdetects kidney disease in cats and dogs months or years earlier than standard screening technologies.â Is the SDMA (symmetric dimethylarginine) test really the breakthrough that it is advertised to be? First some backgroundâ¦.
SDMA has been shown to be a more sensitive and specific biomarker of renal function compared to creatinine. Since the test was made available to practices across Australia, more than 50,000 tests have been run and veterinarians are now seeing more than 2X the amount of early kidney disease detected by creatinine alone*. 1  An SDMA result above 14ug/dL indicates reduced renal function.