Table 2.

Geometric means and 95% lower (LCI) and upper (UCI) confidence intervals of concentrations of serum amyloid A and α1-acid glycoprotein from d 3 to 17 postinfusion for cows classified into uterine health groups¹

Item	NEG–NEG			NEG–POS			POS–NEG			POS–POS			P-value2
	Mean	LCI	UCI	Mean	LCI	UCI	Mean	LCI	UCI	Mean	LCI	UCI	Group	Day	Group × Day
Serum amyloid A (μg/mL)													<0.001	<0.001	0.95
d 3	30.3	17.01	53.48	55.2	28.83	104.80	87.9	37.94	201.86	100.0	48.97	203.36
d 7	7.4	3.80	13.53	19.6	9.96	37.86	18.3	7.47	43.14	27.0	12.84	55.60
d 11	2.2	0.82	4.51	6.9	3.19	13.85	6.3	2.20	15.65	17.6	8.18	36.52
d 17	6.8	3.24	13.23	13.9	6.92	27.07	22.4	9.23	52.30	18.0	7.29	42.56
α1-Acid glycoprotein (mg/mL)													0.11	<0.05	0.77
d 3	0.74	0.539	0.966	0.76	0.542	1.008	0.93	0.699	1.195	0.73	0.475	1.027
d 7	0.83	0.619	1.070	0.96	0.716	1.234	1.25	0.982	1.561	1.13	0.821	1.501
d 11	0.69	0.499	0.915	0.69	0.483	0.932	0.97	0.729	1.235	1.05	0.751	1.405
d 17	0.75	0.530	0.996	0.70	0.492	0.943	0.79	0.576	1.037	0.92	0.590	1.312

¹NEG–NEG: endometritis negative–infection negative; NEG–POS: endometritis negative–infection positive; POS–NEG: endometritis positive–infection negative; POS–POS: endometritis positive–infection positive.

²P-values presented for effect of uterine health group (Group), day postinfection (Day), and the interaction of uterine health group and day postinfusion (Group × Day) in the repeated measures mixed models.