Table 3.

Risk of severe sepsis and organ dysfunction among subjects with and without diabetes^*

Variable	With diabetes	Without diabetes	P value
Risk of severe sepsis, n (%)	133 (34.6)	449 (29.7)	0.06
Organ dysfunction, n (%)
Respiratory	76 (19.8)	254 (16.8)	0.17
Cardiovascular	15 (3.9)	60 (4.0)	0.95
Renal	116 (30.2)	346 (22.9)	0.007
Liver	1 (0.3)	11 (0.7)	0.27
Neurologic	31 (8.1)	83 (5.5)	0.06
Coagulation	4 (1.0)	19 (1.3)	0.49

^*Consensus criteria were used to define severe sepsis and acute organ dysfunction, except for renal dysfunction where the RIFLE criteria were used.^20,37