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Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles
Veterinary care plays an influential role in sea turtle rehabilitation, especially in endangered species. Physiological characteristics, hematological and plasma biochemistry profiles, are useful references for clinical management in animals, especially when animals are during the convalescence peri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25803431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120796 |
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author | Li, Tsung-Hsien Chang, Chao-Chin Cheng, I-Jiunn Lin, Suen-Chuain |
author_facet | Li, Tsung-Hsien Chang, Chao-Chin Cheng, I-Jiunn Lin, Suen-Chuain |
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description | Veterinary care plays an influential role in sea turtle rehabilitation, especially in endangered species. Physiological characteristics, hematological and plasma biochemistry profiles, are useful references for clinical management in animals, especially when animals are during the convalescence period. In this study, these factors associated with sea turtle surviving were analyzed. The blood samples were collected when sea turtles remained alive, and then animals were followed up for surviving status. The results indicated that significantly negative correlation was found between buoyancy disorders (BD) and sea turtle surviving (p < 0.05). Furthermore, non-surviving sea turtles had significantly higher levels of aspartate aminotranspherase (AST), creatinine kinase (CK), creatinine and uric acid (UA) than surviving sea turtles (all p < 0.05). After further analysis by multiple logistic regression model, only factors of BD, creatinine and UA were included in the equation for calculating summarized health index (SHI) for each individual. Through evaluation by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, the result indicated that the area under curve was 0.920 ± 0.037, and a cut-off SHI value of 2.5244 showed 80.0% sensitivity and 86.7% specificity in predicting survival. Therefore, the developed SHI could be a useful index to evaluate health status of sea turtles and to improve veterinary care at rehabilitation facilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-43724592015-04-04 Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles Li, Tsung-Hsien Chang, Chao-Chin Cheng, I-Jiunn Lin, Suen-Chuain PLoS One Research Article Veterinary care plays an influential role in sea turtle rehabilitation, especially in endangered species. Physiological characteristics, hematological and plasma biochemistry profiles, are useful references for clinical management in animals, especially when animals are during the convalescence period. In this study, these factors associated with sea turtle surviving were analyzed. The blood samples were collected when sea turtles remained alive, and then animals were followed up for surviving status. The results indicated that significantly negative correlation was found between buoyancy disorders (BD) and sea turtle surviving (p < 0.05). Furthermore, non-surviving sea turtles had significantly higher levels of aspartate aminotranspherase (AST), creatinine kinase (CK), creatinine and uric acid (UA) than surviving sea turtles (all p < 0.05). After further analysis by multiple logistic regression model, only factors of BD, creatinine and UA were included in the equation for calculating summarized health index (SHI) for each individual. Through evaluation by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, the result indicated that the area under curve was 0.920 ± 0.037, and a cut-off SHI value of 2.5244 showed 80.0% sensitivity and 86.7% specificity in predicting survival. Therefore, the developed SHI could be a useful index to evaluate health status of sea turtles and to improve veterinary care at rehabilitation facilities. Public Library of Science 2015-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4372459/ /pubmed/25803431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120796 Text en © 2015 Li et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Li, Tsung-Hsien Chang, Chao-Chin Cheng, I-Jiunn Lin, Suen-Chuain Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title | Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title_full | Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title_fullStr | Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title_short | Development of a Summarized Health Index (SHI) for Use in Predicting Survival in Sea Turtles |
title_sort | development of a summarized health index (shi) for use in predicting survival in sea turtles |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25803431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120796 |
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