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. 2017 Jun 7;23(21):3890–3899. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v23.i21.3890

Table 3.

Comparison of major serum and urinary metabolites responsible for the separation between two groups of ulcerative colitis patients12

UC groups
VIP score Fold change (remission/relapse) P value3
Remission Relapse
Trans-aconitate (urine) 0.5 (0.5-1.6) 3.6 (1.9-5.5) 1.9 0.2 0.02
3-hydroxybutyrate (serum) 21.0 (15.0-33.9) 127.8 (37.5-232.0) 1.4 0.2 < 0.01
Cystine (urine) 5.3 (4.0-8.6) 3.3 (1.4-5.9) 1.4 2.7 0.07
Acetamide (urine) 4.9 (2.7-7.1) 2.6 (0.8-3.8) 1.3 2.4 0.05
Acetoacetate (serum) 7.8 (5.8-13.0) 25.6 (10.5-60.2) 1.2 0.3 0.02
Acetone (serum) 5.3 (4.2-8.7) 11.9 (6.0-24.7) 1.1 0.4 0.06
1

Concentrations are presented as median (interquartile range);

2

Unit of concentration for the metabolites in serum and urine is μmol and μmol/mmol, respectively;

3

Obtained from Mann-Whitney U test.