“…In contrast to creatinine, urine osmolality is not affected by diurnal rhythms, diet, activity, age, gender, stress, or health, as osmolite concentration is a reflection of the total endogenous metabolic turnout (Warrack et al, 2009). Veterinary research is gaining an increasing interest in the metabolomics area, but it is still underexplored compared to the human medicine field (Carlos et al, 2020). Metabolomics strategies have a wide canine application area, as evidenced by previous studies investigating different diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes, hypothyroidism, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and others (Li et al, 2015;Forster et al, 2018;Ferlizza et al, 2020;Muñoz-Prieto et al, 2021).…”