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. 2013 Jun 1;30(11):946–957. doi: 10.1089/neu.2012.2579

Table 1.

S100b Demographic and Clinical Variables: Distributions by Trajectory Groups

 
S100b CSF trajectory groups
S100b serum trajectory groups
Variable Low group (n=25) Intermediate group (n=80) High group (n=33) p-value Low group (n=45) High group (n=35) p-value
Gender, N (%)
Female 2 (7.1) 14 (50.0) 12 (42.9) 0.022 13 (61.9) 8 (38.1) 0.614
Male 23 (20.9) 66 (60.0) 21 (19.1)   32 (54.2) 27 (45.8)  
Age, years mean±SEM 36.3±3.0 32.3±1.6 42.8±2.9 0.004 35.2±2.2 39.5±2.9 0.226
BMI mean±SEM 27.0±0.9 26.5±0.6 28.1±1.1 0.394 25.2±0.6 28.3±1.2 0.054
GCS, median 7 6 6 0.234 6 6 0.296
ISS mean±SEM 37.6±2.0 33.4±1.1 33.9±1.8 0.261 32.5±1.6 37.6±1.6 0.032
Hypothermia treatment, N (% yes) 3 (18.8) 9 (56.2) 4 (25.0) >0.999 8 (72.7) 3 (27.3) 0.332
Long-bone fracture, N (% fractured) 2 (18.2) 6 (54.5) 3 (27.3) 0.913 4 (66.7) 2 (33.3) 0.691
Isolated head injury, N (% with IHI) 6 (10.0) 40 (66.7) 14 (23.3) 0.081 22 (50.0) 16 (45.7) 0.821
Mechanism of injury
 Automobile/motorcycle 22 (22.4) 57 (58.2) 19 (19.4) 0.056 35 (61.4) 22 (38.6) 0.173
 Fall/jump 2 (9.1) 13 (59.1) 7 (31.8)   4 (33.3) 8 (66.7)  
 Other 0 (0.0) 10 (58.8) 7 (41.2)   5 (50.0) 5 (50.0)  
Radiological injury type, N (% present)
 Subdural hematoma 14 (17.3) 47 (58.0) 20 (24.7) 0.833 25 (51.0) 24 (49.0) 0.480
 Subarachnoid hemorrhage 17 (17.4) 55 (56.1) 26 (26.5) 0.421 34 (55.7) 27 (44.3) 0.781
 Diffuse axonal injury 5 (11.6) 31 (72.1) 7 (16.3) 0.110 13 (65.0) 7 (35.0) 0.308
 Epidural hematoma 5 (29.4) 8 (47.1) 4 (23.5) 0.295 7 (46.7) 8 (53.3) 0.570
 Contusion 7 (12.1) 33 (56.9) 18 (31.0) 0.270 19 (48.7) 20 (51.3) 0.363
 Intraventricular hemorrhage 5 (11.6) 26 (60.5) 12 (27.9) 0.610 13 (59.1) 9 (40.9) 0.800
 Intracerebral hemorrhage 10 (21.7) 22 (47.8) 14 (30.4) 0.134 14 (53.8) 12 (46.2) >0.999
Acute care mortality
 Dead 1 (4.2) 10 (41.7) 13 (54.1) <0.001 9 (34.6) 17 (65.4) 0.015
 Alive 22 (20.9) 66 (62.9) 17 (16.2)   34 (65.4) 18 (34.6)  

SEM, standard error of the mean; BMI, body mass index; GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; ISS, Injury Severity Scale; IHI, isolated head injury.

Bolded values represent statistically significant comparisons where alpha<0.05.