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. 2019 Apr 19;98(9):3426–3430. doi: 10.3382/ps/pez204

Table 1.

Heritability estimates and standard errors for 13 blood gas and chemistry components across 4 time points. Bold indicates estimate differs from 0.

Trait pre 5 h 2 wk 4 wk
Base Excess (BE) 0.01 (0.09) 0.21 (0.10) 0.17 (0.11) 0.26 (0.12)
Glucose (Glu) 0.08 (0.11) NC1 0.37 (0.12) 0.10 (0.10)
Hemoglobin (Hb) 0.44 (0.11) 0.04 (0.09) 0.22 (0.11) 0.31 (0.11)
Bicarbonate (HCO3) 0.01 (0.09) 0.19 (0.10) 0.29 (0.12) 0.42 (0.12)
Hematocrit (Hct) 0.45 (0.11) 0.05 (0.09) 0.20 (0.11) 0.32 (0.11)
Ionized calcium (iCa) 0.01 (0.09) NC 0.13 (0.11) 0.05 (0.10)
Potassium (K) 0.04 (0.10) 0.07 (0.10) 0.06 (0.09) 0.29 (0.12)
Sodium (Na) NC NC 0.12 (0.11) 0.003 (0.08)
Partial pressure of CO2 (PCO2) 0.03 (0.09) 0.19 (0.11) NC 0.26 (0.11)
pH 0.05 (0.09) 0.09 (0.10) 0.001 (0.08) 0.12 (0.11)
Partial pressure of O2 (PO2) 0.02 (0.08) NC NC 0.01 (0.09)
Oxygen saturation (sO2) 0.05 (0.09) 0.05 (0.10) NC 0.02 (0.09)
Total carbon dioxide (TCO2) NC 0.13 (0.10) 0.34 (0.12) 0.33 (0.12)

1Does not converge