In contrast, a three-variable model, using plasma angiopoietin-2 (ANG-2), angiopoietin-1 (ANG-1), and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 (sTNFR-1), had the optimal predictive performance to differentiate AKI sub-phenotypes (C-statistic 0.93). Here, ANGPT2 is linked to acute kidney injury.