What change might be expected in the serum of a dog who just ate a can of food?
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Blood drawn soon after a meal may appear lipemic (milky-colored, fatty). Lipemia interferes with many biochemical tests.
This maybe a normal finding, but hyperlipemia (high blood lipids) can also have metabolic causes: e.g., sudden increases in nutritional requirements (pregnancy, stress) or decreases in feed quality can cause hyperlipemia in horses, or acute pancreatitis in dogs and cats.
