Urinary NGAL had significantly better diagnostic accuracy for AKI than IL-18 (relative DOR 0.62, 95% CI 0.45–0.85) and TIMP-2 × IGFBP-7: 0.3 (relative DOR 0.46, 95% CI 0.24–0.86) (Table 6). Here, IL18 is linked to acute kidney injury.