The results demonstrated that urinary NGAL had high diagnostic accuracy (DOR 13.8, 95% CI 10.2–18.8), which was significantly better than IL-18 (relative DOR 0.60, 95% CI 0.44–0.82), and TIMP-2 × IGFBP-7: 0.3 (relative DOR 0.42, 95% CI 0.22–0.81) for the occurrence of AKI (Table 3). Here, IL18 is linked to acute kidney injury.