Table V.
Comparison between Black and Non-Black Patients Immunosuppressed Prior to the Onset of Sepsis
| Characteristic | # missinga |
Racial Group | |
| Black (%) N=71 |
Non-black (%) N=340 |
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| Age | 0 | 47 (36,61)b | 56 (42, 69)*** |
| Male | 0 | 38 (53.5) | 186 (54.7) |
| Insurance Status | |||
| None/self pay | 5 (7.9) | 19 (6.0) | |
| Government source | 35 | 34 (54.0) | 147 (47.0) |
| HMO/private | 24 (38.1) | 147 (47.0) | |
| Liver disease | 2 | 5 (7.1) | 47 (13.9) |
| Lung disease | 12 | 8 (11.6) | 33 (9.7) |
| Renal disease | 1 | 13 (18.6) | 27 (7.9)** |
| Diabetes mellitus | 1 | 14 (19.7) | 40 (11.8) |
| Cancerc | 0 | 17 (23.9) | 159 (46.8)**** |
| HIV infectiond | 0 | 27 (38.0) | 29 (8.5)**** |
| Any transplantatione | 1 | 7 (9.9) | 77 (22.7)** |
| Any immunosuppressive therapy | 0 | 47 (66.2) | 224 (84.1)*** |
| Any corticosteroid agents | 2 | 40 (57.1) | 224 (66.1) |
| Any myelosuppressive agents | 1 | 12 (17.4) | 127 (37.4)**** |
| Any T lymphocyte suppression | 2 | 2 (2.9) | 33 (13.0)** |
| Neutropenia | 0 | 1 (1.4) | 8 (2.4) |
Abbreviations: HMO, health maintenance organization; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus.
One patient out of 412 did not have data on race. Therefore, the number missing refers to the number of subjects out of 411 with complete race data.
Median (interquartile range)
Of black patients, 9 (12.7%) had hematological and 8 (11.3%) had nonhematological malignancies. Of non-black patients, 87 (25.6%) had hematological and 72 (21.2%) had nonhematological malignancies.
Twenty five black patients and twenty eight non-black patients had AIDS (p=0.60).
For black patients, the types of transplantations were liver 1, kidney 5, heart 0, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 1, other 0. For nonblack patients, the types of transplantations were liver 21 (including one patient who also had another transplantation), kidney 8, heart 5, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 39, other 6.
Levels of significance:
<0.05,
≤0.01,
≤0.001,
≤0.0001.