Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Characteristics |
Patients with Sepsis (n = 56) |
Control Subjects |
|---|---|---|
| (n = 20) | ||
| Demographics | ||
| Age, median (quartiles), yr | 70 (60–78) | 48 (41–58) |
| Sex, female, n (%) | 22 (39) | 15 (75) |
| Race, n (%) | ||
| White | 50 (89) | 13 (65) |
| African American | 1 (2) | 4 (20) |
| Asian | 2 (4) | 3 (15) |
| Other/not reported | 3 (6) | 0 (0) |
| Past medical history, n (%) | ||
| Pulmonary diseases* | 9 (16) | — |
| Cardiac disease† | 16 (28) | — |
| Cancer | 12 (21) | — |
| Diabetes | 19 (33) | — |
| Renal disease | 8 (14) | — |
| Liver disease | 9 (16) | — |
| Admission data | ||
| Lactate, median (quartiles), mmol/L‡ | 1.9 (1.1–2.6) | — |
| Lactate > 4 mmol/L, n (%)‡ | 6 (11) | — |
| APACHE II score, median (quartiles) | 14 (9–18) | — |
| SOFA score, median (quartiles) | 3 (1–6) | — |
| Vasopressor requirement, n (%) | 13 (23) | — |
| Mortality, n (%) | 12 (21) | — |
Definition of abbreviations: APACHE II = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; SOFA = sequential organ failure assessment.
*
Includes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
†
Includes coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure.
‡
Lactate levels were missing on seven patients.