Table 3.
Overall means1 (95% confidence interval) of blood components before and after treatment of cows with parturient paresis and of "recumbent" cows2
| 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) |
1Geometric means for glucose, insulin and cortisol, i.e. back-transformed from a logarithmic scale
2See Table 1 for definition of the diagnoses
3NEFA = Non-esterified fatty acids
Numbers within row and pair of columns with a common letter in the superscript does not differ significantly (p > 0.05)