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Table 2 Overall means1 (95% confidence interval) of blood and serum components in the different disease groups before treatment according to clinical diagnosis 2, as estimated from linear regression model

From: Low cortisol levels in blood from dairy cows with ketosis: a field study

 

Clinical diagnoses

 

IK

I

MA

ME

PP

R

O

Glucose, mmol/l

2.9a

(2.1-4.0)

3.4a

(2.0-5.8)

3.3a

(2.7-3.9)

3.2a

(2.7-3.8)

5.2b

(4.5-6.0)

6.1b

(4.2-8.8)

3.1a

(2.5-3.9)

Insulin, mU/l

3.7a

(1.8-7.4)

6.7ab

(1.6-27.9)

12.9b

(6.9-24.2)

4.9a

(1.4-17.8)

4.6a

(3.3-6.3)

8.6ab

(3.8-19.8)

8.8ab

(3.6-21.6)

Cortisol, nmol/l

9.6a

(5.7-16.1)

8.8a

(4.7-16.6)

23.3b

(7.4-72.9)

12.2ab

(4.4-34.3)

78.0c

(58.8-103.4)

96.7c

(66.1-141.4)

15.8ab

(6.9-36.3)

NEFA3, mmol/l

0.8a

(0.1-1.6)

0.5ab

(0.1-1.0)

0.4b

(0.2-0.7)

0.5ab

(0.3-0.8)

0.8a

(0.6-1.0)

0.7ab

(0.4-1.0)

0.4bc

(0.2-0.6)

  1. 1Geometric means for glucose, insulin and cortisol, i.e. back-transformed from a logarithmic scale
  2. 2See Table 1 for definition of groups of clinical diagnoses
  3. 3NEFA = Non-esterified fatty acids
  4. Numbers within row with a common letter in the superscript does not differ significantly (p > 0.05).