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¦.
It is also used as a monitoring test for dogs who are being treated for Cushing's disease with Lysodren. Low Dose Dexamethasone Suppression Test: This is considered the best test with an estimated 90-95% ability to diagnose Cushing's disease. A fasted dog has a blood sample taken as a baseline in the morning.igh cortisol in urine is suggestive of high cortisol in the bloodstream. Many conditions other than Cushing's disease can cause false positives, so this test is not considered diagnostic. Nonetheless, if the cortisol/creatinine ratio is okay, the dog is not likely to be Cushingoid, so this is a good screening test.