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. 2017 Oct 31;26:68–77. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.10.027

Table 2.

Differences in urine excretion rate and blood metabolite concentration in the primary cohort, comparing participants with and without CKD.

Metabolite ID-number Urine excretion rate
Blood concentration
% difference (95% CI) p-Value FDR % difference (95% CI) p-Value FDR
Significant in both urine and blood
Stearate HMDB00827 − 53 (− 77, − 4) 0.041 0.11 47 (13, 92) 0.0068 0.021
Palmitate HMDB00220 − 52 (− 75, − 8) 0.03 0.092 55 (16, 107) 0.0059 0.02
Glycolate HMDB00115 − 45 (− 59, − 26) 0.00026 0.0049 − 19 (− 25, − 13) 9.80E-07 5.80E-05
3-Hydroxyisovalerate HMDB00754 − 41 (− 55, − 23) 0.00032 0.0049 25 (10, 42) 0.0017 0.0093
Isocitrate HMDB00193 − 41 (− 57, − 19) 0.0021 0.016 24 (2, 52) 0.033 0.061
Homovanillate HMDB00118 − 37 (− 60, − 1) 0.047 0.12 − 13 (− 21, − 3) 0.012 0.029
L-2-Hydroxyglutarate HMDB00694 − 36 (− 48, − 20) 0.0003 0.0049 6 (2, 11) 0.0082 0.023
Hydroxypropionate HMDB00700 − 29 (− 52, 4) 0.077 0.18 18 (3, 36) 0.021 0.043
2-Methylcitrate HMDB00379 − 28 (− 41, − 12) 0.0027 0.018 13 (7, 19) 0.00006 0.00094
3-Hydroxyglutarate HMDB00428 − 24 (− 42, 1) 0.06 0.15 14 (6, 22) 0.00077 0.0057
Leucinate HMDB00665 − 5 (− 7, − 2) 0.0029 0.018 − 8 (− 14, − 1) 0.032 0.061



Significant in blood only
3-Hydroxybutyrate HMDB00011 − 5 (− 27, 24) 0.72 0.78 113 (22, 272) 0.011 0.028
Hippurate HMDB00714 6 (− 34, 71) 0.79 0.83 109 (55, 181) 0.00002 0.00057
Oleate HMDB00207 − 11 (− 24, 4) 0.14 0.29 80 (25, 159) 0.0044 0.017
Acetoacetate HMDB00060 − 1 (− 20, 24) 0.95 0.95 76 (3, 203) 0.041 0.071
3-Hydroxyadipate HMDB00345 − 16 (− 46, 31) 0.42 0.6 38 (17, 62) 0.00035 0.0034
Glycerate HMDB00139 − 25 (− 54, 21) 0.22 0.38 34 (1, 78) 0.041 0.071
2-Hydroxybutyrate HMDB00008 3 (− 19, 31) 0.81 0.83 34 (− 1, 82) 0.058 0.095
Myristate HMDB00806 − 1 (− 4, 1) 0.2 0.36 29 (− 6, 77) 0.11 0.16
2-Ethylhydracrylate HMDB00396 − 16 (− 41, 20) 0.32 0.5 28 (11, 47) 0.0012 0.0072
L-Malate HMDB00156 − 22 (− 52, 27) 0.3 0.48 22 (7, 40) 0.0054 0.02
p-Hydroxyphenylacetate HMDB00020 − 7 (− 28, 22) 0.6 0.72 18 (8, 29) 0.00071 0.0057
3-Methylglutaconate HMDB00522 − 4 (− 27, 27) 0.78 0.83 16 (6, 27) 0.0025 0.011
Hydroxyphenyllactate HMDB00755 − 8 (− 28, 18) 0.48 0.61 13 (2, 26) 0.021 0.043
4-Hydroxyhippurate HMDB13678 − 28 (− 72, 84) 0.47 0.61 10 (3, 18) 0.008 0.023
Phenylpyruvate HMDB00205 − 2 (− 5, 2) 0.26 0.42 10 (2, 20) 0.017 0.038
Fumarate HMDB00134 − 4 (− 17, 12) 0.62 0.72 7 (2, 12) 0.011 0.028
Adipate HMDB00448 − 1 (− 31, 42) 0.94 0.95 6 (2, 9) 0.001 0.0067
Hexanoylglycine HMDB00701 − 23 (− 48, 14) 0.18 0.35 6 (1, 11) 0.017 0.038
3-Methyladipate HMDB00555 − 10 (− 31, 18) 0.43 0.6 5 (2, 7) 0.00022 0.0026
Benzoate HMDB01870 − 5 (− 25, 20) 0.65 0.73 − 7 (− 11, − 2) 0.0069 0.021
Methylsuccinate HMDB01844 4 (− 9, 19) 0.52 0.64 − 21 (− 35, − 5) 0.018 0.04
2-Methylacetoacetate HMDB03771 − 5 (− 12, 2) 0.14 0.29 − 29 (− 43, − 13) 0.0027 0.011



Significant in urine only
Citrate HMDB00094 − 68 (− 82, − 44) 0.00049 0.006 − 11 (− 35, 22) 0.45 0.56
Succinate HMDB00254 − 47 (− 65, − 20) 0.0048 0.023 − 4 (− 13, 7) 0.49 0.60
4-Hydroxybutyrate HMDB00710 − 46 (− 63, − 20) 0.0049 0.023 5 (− 2, 14) 0.16 0.22
2-oxoglutarate HMDB00208 − 42 (− 68, 5) 0.071 0.17 9 (− 7, 28) 0.27 0.36
cis-Aconitate HMDB00072 − 40 (− 58, − 16) 0.0051 0.023 − 20 (− 41, 9) 0.14 0.20
Methylmalonate HMDB00202 − 40 (− 60, − 10) 0.018 0.06 1 (− 4, 6) 0.74 0.84
2-Methyl-3-hydroxybutyrate HMDB00354 − 39 (− 53, − 21) 0.0011 0.011 3 (− 1, 8) 0.097 0.15
Tiglylglycine HMDB00959 − 37 (− 49, − 24) 0.00005 0.0029 2 (0, 4) 0.03 0.058
Ethylmalonate HMDB00622 − 37 (− 55, − 10) 0.015 0.054 4 (0, 9) 0.057 0.095
N-acetyl-l-aspartate HMDB00812 − 31 (− 47, − 10) 0.0085 0.033 6 (− 16, 32) 0.62 0.74
Pyroglutamate HMDB00267 − 30 (− 50, − 2) 0.039 0.11 16 (− 5, 43) 0.15 0.20
Glutarate HMDB00661 − 27 (− 41, − 10) 0.0071 0.029 4 (− 3, 10) 0.24 0.33
Glutaconate HMDB00620 − 24 (− 36, − 9) 0.0049 0.023 1 (− 2, 3) 0.7 0.82
Ortho-hydroxyphenylacetate HMDB00669 − 23 (− 37, − 6) 0.016 0.057 1 (0, 1) 0.1 0.16
Azelate HMDB00784 − 22 (− 31, − 10) 0.002 0.016 0 (− 4, 3) 0.81 0.88
3-Hydroxymethylglutarate HMDB00355 − 20 (− 35, − 1) 0.037 0.11 2 (1, 2) 0.0021 0.01

Note: Data are relative difference (% and 95% CI) between non-diabetic CKD and healthy controls. A positive percent difference indicates that the metabolite was higher in CKD than in controls. The significance threshold is ≥ 5% difference between CKD and controls and Q-values indicating a FDR < 20%. The % difference and p-values for metabolites passing this threshold are in bold print. Analytes are ordered by magnitude of difference between cases and controls. p-Values are based on t-test on log-transformed values assuming unequal variance.