Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of patients with GNB according to quintiles of the absolute difference of the SDBGC respect the reference value of lowest mortality (155 mg/dL).

	1st Quintile n = 183	2nd Quintile n = 190	3rd Quintile n = 163	4th Quintile n = 167	5th Quintile n = 166	p
Range of difference in BGC with the reference value (mg/dL)	≤15	16-29	30-42	43-62	≥63	-
Demographics
Male sex	59.0	53.7	54.0	54.5	41.6	0.02
Age >65 y	74.9	76.3	75.5	61.4	77.1	0.006
Comorbidity
Diabetes mellitus	10.4	11.1	6.8	4.2	49.1	<0.001
Neoplasm	10.4	10.5	9.3	10.2	6.1	0.59
COPD	9.3	13.2	9.9	7.8	6.1	0.2
Dementia	6.0	6.8	8.0	7.9	12.7	0.19
Liver cirrhosis	4.4	3.2	6.2	4.2	10.3	0.04
Stroke	5.5	6.3	3.1	6.6	7.9	0.44
Immunosuppression	4.4	2.1	3.7	6.0	5.5	0.39
Chronic renal failure	2.7	2.1	4.3	2.4	5.5	0.37
Charlson ≥3	11.5	16.1	13.8	18.5	14.8	0.57
Origin of infection
Urinary	49.5	55.0	55.3	63.0	59.1	0.12
Biliary	20.3	21.2	22.4	13.9	12.8	0.07
Unknown	17.6	12.2	12.4	9.1	15.9	0.16
Intra-abdominal	4.4	3.7	4.3	4.8	4.3	1
Pneumonia	1.1	1.6	1.2	2.4	3.0	0.64
Microorganism
E. coli	82.0	83.2	82.2	82.6	78.3	0.8
Klebsiella spp.	6.0	3.7	6.7	6.6	7.8	0.56
Proteus spp.	4.4	5.8	6.1	4.8	4.2	0.9
Salmonella spp.	5.5	3.7	3.7	4.2	5.4	0.86
Enterobacter spp.	2.2	3.7	1.2	1.2	4.2	0.25
Adequate empirical treatment	82.6	80.3	85.8	81.8	83.7	0.7
Polymicrobial bacteremia	8.2	7.4	9.2	5.4	8.4	0.74
Presentation
Septic shock	0	0.5	1.8	1.2	1.8	0.35
Outcome
Required ICU	4.4	1.6	3.1	4.2	3.6	0.58
Death	3.3	6.3	7.4	7.8	12.0	0.03

Data are % of patients. ICU: Intensive care unit.