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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Emerg Med. 2009 Aug 31;39(1):89–94. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.07.021

Table 1.

Demographics of the Study Population

All subjects
(n = 699)
Age, years [mean (SD)] 60.4 (± 20.0)
Gender, % female 408 (58.3%)
Comorbidities [n (%)]
    Hypertension 290 (41.5%)
    Cardiovascular disease 107 (15.3%)
    Diabetes 154 (22.1%)
    End-stage renal disease/hemodialysis 29 (4.2%)
    History of stroke 46 (6.6%)
    History of congestive heart failure 70 (10.0%)
Most common infection sources [n (%)]
    Lower respiratory/pneumonia 132 (18.9%)
    Skin/soft tissue/wound 129 (18.5%)
    Urogenital 91 (13.0%)
    Intra-abdominal 73 (10.4%)
Temperature, °C [mean (SD)] 37.8 (1.2)
Heart rate, beats/min [mean (SD)] 97.0 (20.8)
Respiratory rate, per minute [mean (SD)] 19.7 (5.6)
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg [mean (SD)] 129.5 (28.8)