{"id":6877,"date":"2016-02-08T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:50:08","slug":"measuring-saa-can-help-identify-health-issues-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/measuring-saa-can-help-identify-health-issues-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring SAA Can Help Identify Health Issues Early"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early stages of infection or inflammation, it might be apparent that something isn\u2019t quite right with your horse, but for all intents and purposes, he\u2019s clinically normal\u2014perhaps no fever, normal appetite. Such vague signs can delay diagnostic and treatment decisions, as the veterinarian opts for a \u201cwait-and-see\u201d approach, leaning on serial blood tests for clues.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, an accurate and reliable indicator for infection is gaining traction in equine practice: serum amyloid A (SAA) concentration.<\/p>\n

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SAA is an inflammatory marker that the liver produces as part of the body\u2019s response to inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,56,85,14,40],"tags":[132,201,144,202,165],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-condition","category-equine-digestion","category-fiber","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-disease","tag-infection","tag-inflammation","tag-serum-amyloid-a","tag-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}