Table 6.

Correlation coefficients for blood and muscle metabolites and ultimate pH. Bolded correlations indicate significance at p < 0.05 and r² > 0.1.

Bio-marker	Glucose	Lactate	NEFA	Mg	βHB	Cl	Na	HP-T	CK	AST	Cp	Glycogen	pHu
Glucose	1.00	0.50	−0.47	0.04	−0.21	−0.02	−0.01	0.18	0.20	0.15	0.32	−0.34	0.13
Lactate		1.00	−0.46	0.11	−0.24	−0.22	0.27	0.21	0.01	0.06	0.29	−0.17	0.02
NEFA			1.00	0.03	0.42	−0.09	−0.17	−0.25	−0.24	−0.19	−0.38	0.20	−0.07
Mg				1.00	0.08	0.00	0.01	−0.11	−0.07	−0.09	0.15	0.02	−0.07
BHB					1.00	−0.02	−0.07	−0.12	−0.19	−0.18	−0.31	0.22	−0.15
Cl						1.00	0.50	0.00	0.25	0.09	−0.03	−0.11	0.07
Na							1.00	0.08	0.11	0.03	−0.08	0.04	−0.02
HP−T								1.00	0.05	0.13	0.17	−0.09	−0.04
CK									1.00	0.70	0.14	−0.52	0.42
AST										1.00	0.11	−0.40	0.36
Cp											1.00	−0.22	0.18
Glycogen												1.00	−0.54