Table 2. Association of baseline parameters with L/A ratio (N = 160).

L/A: lactate/albumin; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; SGOT: serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase; SGPT: serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase; RBS: random blood sugar; TLC: total leucocyte count.

1: Spearman correlation, 2: Kruskal-Wallis test, 3: Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test.

***Significant at P < 0.05.

Parameters	L/A ratio	P-value
Age (years)	Correlation coefficient (rho) = 0.09	0.2331
Age		0.6552
18-30	0.77 ± 0.36
31-40	0.93 ± 0.30
41-50	0.99 ± 0.50
51-60	0.92 ± 0.49
61-70	1.03 ± 0.50
71-80	1.03 ± 0.54
81-90	0.87 ± 0.49
Gender		0.3173
Male	0.99 ± 0.50
Female	0.88 ± 0.38
System involved		0.5392
Infectious	0.96 ± 0.41
Respiratory	1.00 ± 0.51
Neurology	0.94 ± 0.41
Cardiology	0.92 ± 0.50
Gastroenterology	0.79 ± 0.33
Renal	1.01 ± 0.64
Others	1.18 ± 0.66
Heart rate (/min)***	0.68	<0.0011
Respiratory rate (/minutes)***	0.64	<0.0011
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)***	-0.54	<0.0011
O2 saturation***	-0.67	<0.0011
Need of ventilator (admission)***		<0.0013
Yes	1.31 ± 0.30
No	0.84 ± 0.45
Vasopressor use (admission)***		<0.0013
Yes	1.29 ± 0.50
No	0.77 ± 0.32
	Correlation Coefficient (rho)
Hemoglobin	-0.08	0.3411
TLC ***	0.38	<0.0011
Platelet count ***	-0.52	<0.0011
SOFA score***	0.76	<0.0011
SGOT***	0.37	<0.0011
SGPT***	0.36	<0.0011
Alkaline phosphatase***	0.2	0.0101
Globulin	-0.08	0.3191
Bilirubin***	0.47	<0.0011
Urea***	0.42	<0.0011
Creatinine***	0.47	<0.0011
Sodium	0.06	0.4411
Potassium	0.1	0.2171
RBS	0.04	0.6571
Lactate***		<0.0013
≤2.1 mmol/L	0.54 ± 0.15
>2.1 mmol/L	1.18 ± 0.42
Albumin***		<0.0013
<3.5 g/dL	1.06 ± 0.45
≥3.5 g/dL	0.54 ± 0.20
Length of stay		0.7923
≤14 Days	0.95 ± 0.49
>14 Days	0.93 ± 0.37
Outcome***		<0.0013
Death	1.37 ± 0.38
Discharge	0.65 ± 0.23