| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ANCOVA | Analysis of Covariance |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| AUROC | Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve |
| CCR | Correlated Component Regression |
| CITs | Computational intelligence techniques |
| CIs | Confidence intervals |
| Cn | creatinine |
| COSY | Correlation Spectroscopy |
| EDTA | Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid |
| ERETIC | Electronic Reference To access In Vivo Concentrations |
| FID | Free Induction Decay |
| GISSMO | Guided Ideographic Spin System Model Optimisation |
| GOD-PAP | Glucose oxidase-peroxide/4-aminophenazone/phenol |
| HF | High-field |
| HMDB | Human Metabolome Database |
| HPLC | High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| IPA | Ingenuity Pathways Analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Gene and Genomics |
| LF | Low-field |
| LOD | Limit of Detection |
| LOOCV | Leave one out Cross validation |
| LOQ | Limit of Quantification |
| MAS | Magic Angle Spinning |
| MCCV | Monte Carlo Cross Validation |
| MMCD | Madison metabolomics consortium database |
| MV | Multivariate |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| OOB | Out-of-the-bag |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PLS-DA | Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
| SOMs | Self-Organising Maps |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedures |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TCOSY | Total Correlation Spectroscopy |
| TMS | Tetramethylsilane |
| TSP | sodium 3-(trimethylsilyl)[2,2,3,3-d4] propionate |
| 3-d-HB | 3-d-Hydroxybutyrate. |