{"id":7384,"date":"2017-03-20T16:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2019-03-20T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T17:59:03","slug":"life-threatening-hyperkalemia-in-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/life-threatening-hyperkalemia-in-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-Threatening Hyperkalemia in Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two main causes of hyperkalemia include failure of the kidneys to remove potassium (which gets excreted in the urine) and abnormal potassium release from cells. Horses with a history of hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP, a genetic muscle disorder of Quarter Horses), compromised kidney function, or massive cellular damage (due to injury or disease) are at greater risk of developing hyperkalemia, said Fielding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a title=\"TheHorse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/38748\/life-threatening-hyperkalemia-in-horses?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High blood potassium levels cause a life-threatening condition known as hyperkalemia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[295,770,768,772,771,767,769],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-american-association-of-equine-practitioners","tag-high-blood-potassium-levels","tag-hyperkalemia","tag-hypp","tag-loomis-basin-equine-medical-center","tag-nettie-liburt","tag-potassium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","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=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}