Table 2. Disease etiology of the study population.

	sepsis	non-sepsis
	n = 84	n = 37
Etiology of sepsis critical illness Site of infection n (%)
Pulmonary	53 (63.1%)
Abdominal	11 (13.1%)
Urogenital	4 (4.8%)
Other	16 (19.0%)
Etiology of non-sepsis critical illness n (%)
cardiopulmonary disease		13 (35.1%)
decompensated liver cirrhosis		10 (27.0%)
non-sepsis other		14 (37.8%)