Table 2.
Correlation coefficients (r) of As, Ti, Pb, Co concentration observed among blood and haematological biomarkers (RBC, HCT, HGB, WBC and PLT) in goats (n = 25) including p-values and significances reported in bold.
| Substrate | RBC | Hct | Hb | WBC | PLT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| r | p value | r | p value | r | p value | r | p value | r | p value | |
| BLOOD | As | |||||||||
| 0.34 | 0.14 | 0.43 | 0.05 | 0.48 | 0.03 | −0.16 | 0.47 | 0.11 | 0.62 | |
| Ti | ||||||||||
| 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.57 | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.01 | −0.14 | 0.53 | −0.21 | 0.36 | |
| Pb | ||||||||||
| 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.52 | 0.01 | 0.37 | 0.11 | −0.07 | 0.74 | 0.05 | 0.68 | |
| Co | ||||||||||
| −0.37 | 0.09 | −0.11 | 0.65 | −0.11 | 0.65 | −0.45 | 0.04 | −0.05 | 0.81 | |