Table 2. Median (95% CI) of differential leukocytes count and C-reactive protein on healthy subjects vs. all patients admitted in intensive care units (ICU).
| Parameters | Healthy subjects | All patients admitted in ICU |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No septic | Septic | Septic shock | ||
| Leukocytes (×109/L) | 6.04‡ (5.89-6.23) | 9.28† (8.92-9.68) | 13.65 (12.98-14.57) | 13.93 (11.38-16.78) |
| Neutrophils (×109/L) | 3.36‡ (3.14-3.53) | 7.41† (7.01-7.69) | 11.33 (10.79-12.07) | 11.69 (9.41-15.35) |
| Lymphocytes (×109/L) | 1.93‡ (1.86-2.03) | 0.85† (0.82-0.88) | 0.97§ (0.86-1.05) | 0.57 (0.51-0.65) |
| Monocytes (×109/L) | 0.49‡ (0.45-0.51) | 0.68† (0.64-0.72) | 0.93 (0.83-1.05) | 0.70 (0.54-0.85) |
| Immature granulocytes (×109/L) | 0.02‡ (0.02-0.02) | 0.14† (0.13-0.15) | 0.29 (0.23-0.33) | 0.34 (0.23-0.42) |
| Highly fluorescent Cells (×109/L) | 0.01‡ (0.00-0.01) | 0.02† (0.02-0.03) | 0.04 (0.03-0.04) | 0.07 (0.06-0.08) |
| C-reactive protein (mg/dL) | 0.05‡ (0.04-0.07) | 5.75† (5.00-7.00) | 11.90 (10.40-13.50) | 11.40 (6.90-14.20) |
Statistically significant differences by Steel-Dwass-Critchlow-Fligner and by Kruskal-Wallis test with P<0.001: ‡, healthy subjects vs. non septic, septic and septic shock; †, no septic vs. septic and septic shock; §, septic vs. septic shock.