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. 2023 Sep 29;101:skad332. doi: 10.1093/jas/skad332

Table 5.

Change from baseline complete blood cell counts of overweight cats during weight loss

Δ wk0-wk6 Δ wk0-wk12 Δ wk0-wk18 Δ wk0-wk24 P-value
Item FT1 OR1 FT1 OR1 FT1 OR1 FT1 OR1 SEM3 Diet Week Diet*wk
RBC, 106/µL2 0.16 −0.13 0.21 −0.39 0.15 −0.54 −0.30 −0.93 0.28 0.1370 <0.0001 0.4591
Reticulocyte count, /µL 0.00 −0.02 0.01 −0.02 0.00 −0.02 −0.01 −0.02 0.02 0.300 0.7956 0.7010
Platelets, fL 34.73 77.09 −56.18 18.62 −3.55 82.08 −2.64 86.61 14.89 0.1168 0.0888 0.8608
MCV, fL2 −0.85 −0.76 −0.64 −0.45 −0.10 0.07 0.29 −0.07 0.28 0.9351 0.0004 0.4837
MCH, pg2 −0.11 −0.29 −0.21 −0.28 −0.05 −0.17 −0.01 −0.15 0.11 0.2617 0.2231 0.9691
MCHC, g/dL2 0.45 −0.06 0.03 −0.35 0.00 −0.45 −0.27 −0.32 0.20 0.1394 0.0049 0.2510
Hemoglobin, g/dL 0.14 −0.39 0.08 −0.75 0.17 −0.83 −0.40 −1.36 0.35 0.0857 0.0004 0.4805
Hematocrit, % −0.09 −1.11 0.21 −1.84 0.51 −1.99 −0.92 −3.70 1.06 0.0456 0.2593 N/A4
Lymphocytes, % −5.63 −2.66 0.15 2.88 −4.64 −0.15 −5.18 −1.15 3.50 0.3749 0.1650 0.9817
Monocytes, % 0.25 −0.52 −0.35 1.13 0.01 −0.55 −0.20 0.58 0.77 0.8060 0.5257 0.0706
Eosinophils, % −0.98 −1.06 0.42 0.27 1.27 −0.61 −1.92 −0.66 1.56 0.9064 0.3362 0.4510
Basophils, % 0.75 0.44 −0.01 0.43 −0.13 −0.04 0.21 −0.26 0.35 0.5968 0.1615 N/A4
Mean platelet volume, 103/µL −0.67 −0.15 −0.77 0.24 −0.78 0.46 −1.07 0.09 0.15 0.0186 0.6375 0.7271
WBC2 count, 103/µL 0.32 −1.13 −0.48 −1.99 −0.35 −1.61 0.96 −1.94 0.67 0.0004 0.6345 N/A4
 Basophils, 103/µL 0.09 0.03 0.00 0.02 −0.01 −0.01 0.03 −0.03 0.03 0.2432 0.0869 N/A4
 Lymphocytes, 103/µL −0.53 −0.73 −0.21 −0.41 −0.68 −0.55 −0.52 −0.69 0.39 0.7734 0.8597 N/A4
 Monocytes, 103/µL 0.02 −0.09 −0.05 0.01 0.00 −0.11 0.03 −0.03 0.07 0.5794 0.5730 0.1285
 Eosinophils, 103/µL −0.07 −0.17 0.05 −0.08 0.13 −0.15 −0.10 −0.18 0.12 0.2927 0.3151 0.5837

1FT, Fit & Trim (Orijen; Champion Petfoods, Edmonton, Canada); OR, Original (Orijen; Champion Petfoods, Edmonton, Canada).

2RBC, red blood cells; MCV, mean cell volume; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; MCHC, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration; WBC, white blood cells.

3SEM, pooled standard error of the means.

4N/A, Wilcoxon signed ranks test; no interaction effect between diet and week.