Table 3.

The means and standard deviations for β-hydroxybutyrate, lactate alanine and glucose, and the results of the linear mixed effect models, of 10 dogs fed daily (BID), and intermittently fasted on a low fat (IF LF) and a high fat diet (LF HF) in a Latin Square design.

Outcome	Diet	Mean	Standard deviation	Fixed effect	Estimate	Standard error	P-value
β-hydroxybutyrate	BID	0.018	0.004	(Intercept)	0.115	0.026
(mmol/L)	IF LF	0.043	0.013	Diet IF LF	0.028	0.003	<0.0001
	IF HF	0.061	0.024	Diet IF HF	0.043	0.003	<0.0001
				BCS	−0.020	0.004	<0.0001
Lactate	BID	0.652	0.150	(Intercept)	0.597	0.244
(mmol/L)	IF LF	0.619	0.161	Day	−0.018	0.005	<0.001
	IF HF	0.571	0.163	Diet IF HF	−0.078	0.029	0.009
Alanine	BID	0.222	0.047	(Intercept)	0.246	0.057
(mmol/L)	IF LF	0.221	0.036	Diet IF HF	−0.003	0.009	<0.001
	IF HF	0.191	0.042
Glucose	BID	5.7	0.4	(Intercept)	5.9	0.5
(mmol/L)	IF LF	5.6	0.3	Day	0.01	0.01	0.06
	IF HF	5.6	0.3	Diet IF LF	−0.12	0.06	0.03
				Diet IF HF	−0.13	0.06	0.02

Only independent variables with a P ≤ 0.1 are shown.