Table 4.
Effects of high-fat diets with high amylose type rice on hematological parameters in dogs (Exp. 1).
| Items | Normal Diet | High-Fat Diet | p-Value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control 1 | hNAR 2 | hHAR 3 | ||||||||
| Leukocytes | ||||||||||
| WBC (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 5.05–16.76) |
7.1 | ± | 1.2 | 8 | ± | 0.9 | 8.8 | ± | 1.3 | 0.590 |
| NEU (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 2.95–11.64) |
4.8 | ± | 0.9 | 5.5 | ± | 0.6 | 5.8 | ± | 0.9 | 0.718 |
| LYM (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 1.05–5.10) |
1.6 | ± | 0.1 | 1.8 | ± | 0.3 | 2.1 | ± | 0.3 | 0.394 |
| MONO (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 0.16–1.12) |
0.4 | ± | 0.1 | 0.4 | ± | 0.1 | 0.5 | ± | 0.1 | 0.815 |
| EOS (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 0.06–1.23) |
0.2 | ± | 0.1 | 0.3 | ± | 0.1 | 0.5 | ± | 0.1 | 0.221 |
| BASO (×106/mL) (Ref. range: 0–0.1) |
0.01 | ± | 0.00 | 0.01 | ± | 0.00 | 0.01 | ± | 0.00 | 0.269 |
| Erythrocytes | ||||||||||
| RBC (×109/mL) (Ref. range: 5.65–8.87) |
6.8 | ± | 0.2 | 6.8 | ± | 0.1 | 6.9 | ± | 0.2 | 0.958 |
| HGB (g/dL) (Ref. range: 13.1–20.5) |
15 | ± | 0.5 | 16 | ± | 0.3 | 15 | ± | 0.4 | 0.697 |
| HCT (%) (Ref. range: 37.3–61.7) |
43 | ± | 1.6 | 46 | ± | 1.1 | 45 | ± | 1.1 | 0.447 |
| MCH (pg) (Ref. range: 21.2–25.9) |
22 | ± | 0.3 | 23 | ± | 0.3 | 23 | ± | 0.4 | 0.170 |
| Thrombocytes | ||||||||||
| PLT (K/µL) (Ref. range: 148–484) |
284 | ± | 39 | 330 | ± | 63 | 266 | ± | 37 | 0.624 |
| PCT (%) (Ref. range: 0.14–0.46) |
0.4 | ± | 0.0 | 0.4 | ± | 0.1 | 0.4 | ± | 0.0 | 0.476 |
1 Control group, basal diet with 12% normal amylose type rice. 2 hNAR group, high-fat diet with 12% normal amylose type rice. 3 hHAR group, high-fat diet with 12% high amylose type rice. WBC, white blood cell; NEU, neutrophils; LYM, lymphocytes; MONO, monocytes; EOS, eosinophils; BASO, basophils; RBC, red blood cells; HGB, hemoglobin; HCT, hematocrit; MCH, mean corpuscular hemoglobin; PLT, platelet; PCT, plateletcrit.