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Table 2 Spearman correlation between the SDMA and age, body weight, serum creatinine and urea in the examined horse groups

From: Serum symmetric dimethylarginine concentration in healthy horses and horses with acute kidney injury

 

SDMA correlations

Group I – healthy horses

Group II - horses with AKI

Foals

Adults

Age

rs = −0.51

NS

NS

Body weight

rs = −0.55

NS

NS

Serum creatinine

NS

rs = 0.36

rs = 0.71

Serum urea

NS

NS

rs = 0.81

  1. Note: AKI acute kidney injury, rs Spearman correlation coefficient; NS nonsignificant. All correlations presented were significant with P < 0.05