Table 5.

Pearson correlation coefficients between the relative concentration of 34 identified plasma metabolites and Bovine Respiratory Disease defined through six reference diagnosis methods.

Metabolite	Visual	Temperature	Lung Auscultation	Clinical Diagnosis	Visual-Clinical	Lung Lesions
1-methyl-histidine	−0.42+	−0.28+	−0.28+	−0.35+	−0.39+	−0.20***
3-hydroxyisobutyrate	0.45+	0.18**	0.19***	0.25+	0.44+	0.20***
Acetate	−0.28+	−0.28+	−0.23+	−0.25+	−0.26+	−0.06
Acetone	0.42+	0.10	0.21***	0.27+	0.41+	0.18**
Alanine	−0.43+	−0.23+	−0.22+	−0.30+	−0.41+	−0.25+
Choline	−0.01	0.02	−0.02	0.01	0.01	−0.13*
Citrate	−0.63+	−0.35+	−0.33+	−0.38+	−0.61+	−0.36+
Creatine	0.11	0.17**	0.11	0.12*	0.14*	−0.12*
Creatinine	0.49+	0.31+	0.23+	0.31+	0.48+	0.24+
Dimethyl sulfone	0.03	−0.02	−0.03	0.07	0.03	−0.05
Ethanol	0.23+	0.06	0.01	0.04	0.23+	0.12*
Formate	0.04	−0.05	−0.02	0.03	0.06	−0.02
Glucose	−0.41+	−0.32+	−0.19***	−0.29+	−0.40+	−0.09
Glutamate	−0.59+	−0.46+	−0.42+	−0.48+	−0.57+	−0.27+
Glutamine	−0.63+	−0.48+	−0.43+	−0.51+	−0.61+	−0.29+
Glycine	−0.29+	−0.28+	−0.24+	−0.25+	−0.28+	−0.10
Glycoprotein acetyls	−0.29+	−0.16**	−0.22+	−0.20***	−0.28+	−0.12*
Hydroxybutyrate	0.64+	0.35+	0.39+	0.44+	0.64+	0.33+
Hydroxyisobutyrate	−0.33+	−0.29+	−0.22***	−0.27+	−0.31+	−0.14*
Isobutyrate	0.15*	−0.01	−0.04	−0.02	0.15**	0.07
Isoleucine	0.49+	0.24+	0.23+	0.27+	0.47+	0.27+
Isopropanol	0.21***	0.05	0.01	0.04	0.21***	0.10
Lactate	0.09	0.16**	0.16**	0.16**	0.08	0.01
Leucine	0.47+	0.25+	0.23+	0.26+	0.48+	0.23***
Low Density Lipid	−0.42+	−0.22***	−0.27+	−0.31+	−0.42+	−0.24+
Mannose	0.48+	0.36+	0.34+	0.31+	0.48+	0.24+
Methanol	0.05	−0.12*	−0.09	−0.08	0.06	0.03
Phenylalanine	0.49+	0.46+	0.20***	0.30+	0.50+	0.24+
Pyruvate	0.44+	0.45+	0.32+	0.34+	0.42+	0.12*
Succinate	0.09	−0.06	−0.02	0.02	0.10	0.14*
Tyrosine	−0.67+	−0.49+	−0.39+	−0.48+	−0.65+	−0.27+
Unsaturated lipid	−0.38+	−0.19***	−0.25+	−0.30+	−0.38+	−0.23+
Valine	−0.48+	−0.36+	−0.30+	−0.34+	−0.46+	−0.26+
α glucose chain	0.66+	0.49+	0.35+	0.38+	0.64+	0.32+