Table 3.

Sepsis-associated mortality rates and rate ratios, by age-group and gender

Characteristic	Sepsis-associated mortality rates per 100,000 population	Crude rate ratios (95% CI)	Adjusted rate ratios (95% CI)
Age groups
0 to 19 years (ref)	19.3	1.0	1.0
20 to 60 years	34.2	1.77 (1.76, 1.79)	1.78 (1.76, 1.79)
60+ years	297.3	15.6 (15.5, 15.7)	15.7 (15.6, 15.8)
Gender
Female (ref)	67.8	1.0	1.0
Male	78.2	1.08 (1.07, 1.08)	1.15 (1.15, 1.16)

Brazil, 2002 to 2010. ref, reference.