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The objective of this study was to assess urine metabolomic parameters of cats with these diseases to determine metabolic abnormalities and differences between the groups. The urine metabolic profile for each cat was determined, along with their lifetime history of stone incidence and renal disease. In order to reduce the data for analysis, factor analysis\/factor loading was used allowing statistical hypothesis testing and the selection of significant metabolites from 488 identified metabolites. A total of 42 cats were used (19 healthy, 12 with CaOx stones and 11 with renal disease). Urine from the cats were tested multiple times (mean\u2009=\u20094.6) therefore cat ID was used as a random variable. All analytes were expressed as a ratio to creatinine in order to compensate for differences in water intake. Principal components analysis was used as the method of factor extraction resulting in six factors that differed between groups. 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