. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: Intensive Care Med. 2008 Jan 8;34(5):881–887. doi: 10.1007/s00134-007-0978-3

Table 3.

Odds ratio (OR) for hospital mortality for patients receiving early intensive insulin therapy compared to late therapy (CI, confidence interval)

	OR	95% CI	p
Crude	0.27	0.13–0.55	<0.001
Multivariate analysis^a	0.29	0.11–0.77	0.01
Propensity score analysis
Crude stratified by quintiles	0.29	0.13–0.66	0.002
Multivariate analysis adjusted for propensity^a	0.24	0.09–0.67	0.006
Matched by quintiles and adjusted for other covariates^a	0.25	0.09–0.69	0.007
Crude 2:1 matched	0.31	0.15–0.65	0.001
2:1 conditional logistic regression^a	0.16	0.038–0.65	0.01

Variables included: age, gender, race (white), Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis, leukemia, cancer, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, sepsis, body mass index, peak glucose in first 24 h, lowest glucose in first 48 h, hyperglycemic index in first 24 h, total calories in first 24 h, total dextrose received per day in ICU, steroid use in first 24 h