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Table 3 Overall means1 (95% confidence interval) of blood components before and after treatment of cows with parturient paresis and of "recumbent" cows2

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

 

Parturient paresis

"Recumbent" cow

 

Before

After

Before

After

Glucose, mmol/l

5.2a

(4.5;6.0)

5.8a

(5.1;6.6)

6.1a

(4.2;8.8)

6.7a

(4.8;9.5)

Insulin, mU/l

4.6a

(3.3;6.3)

8.0b

(4.6;14.2)

8.6a

(3.8;19.8)

8.7a

(4.0;18.9)

Cortisol, nmol/l

78.0a

(58.8;103.4)

64.2b

(53.1;77.6)

96.7a

(66.1;141.4)

91.5a

(63.0;133.1)

NEFA3, mmol/l

0.8a

(0.6;1.0)

0.8a

(0.6;1.0)

0.7a

(0.4;1.0)

0.7a

(0.5;0.9)

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