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Table 2.

PCT, sTREM-1, CRP, WBC levels and APACHE II score of patients with sepsis and SIRS

		Sepsis (n=52)	SIRS (n=38)	^ap
PCT
1^st measurement	Min-Max (Median)	0.05–95.03 (3.86)	0.05–71.95 (1.14)	0.010^*
	Mean±SD	11.33±19.31	5.86±13.57
PCT
2^nd measurement	Min-Max (Median)	0.06–106.70 (2.62)	0.05–13.34 (0.91)	0.010^*
	Mean±SD	11.53±18.96	2.48±3.38
^bp		0.820	0.516	0.958
Difference; Min-Max (Median)		-66.02/105.45 (-0.23)	-61.15/12.21 (-0.05)
sTREM-1
1^st measurement	Min-Max (Median)	67.49–2000 (164.66)	18.33–371.62 (96.78)	0.001^**
	Mean±SD	389.82±524.44	110.86±57.66
sTREM-1
2^nd measurement	Min-Max (Median)	70.86–2000.00 (171.28)	37.08–289.36 (99.85)	0.001^**
	Mean±SD	397.59±494.75	111.45±45.84
^bp		0.426	0.602	0.947
Difference; Min-Max (Median)		-829.12/797.78 (2.85)	-82.26/49.58 (1.89)
CRP
1^st measurement	Min-Max (Median)	3.0–42.8 (13.7)	4.3–32.5 (11.75)	0.498
	Mean±SD	14.55±7.00	13.91±7.18
CRP
2^nd measurement	Min-Max (Median)	1.93–42.90 (11.0)	1.98–30.00 (9.61)	0.367
	Mean±SD	13.24±8.14	11.63±7.21
^bp		0.201	0.213	0.922
Difference; Min-Max (Median)		-19.80/33.85 (-3.22)	-24.85/16.39 (-1.52)
WBC
1^st measurement	Min-Max (Median)	6.0–46.7 (14.1)	2.4–46.2 (13.05)	0.180
	Mean±SD	15.86±7.97	14.10±8.64
WBC
2^nd measurement	Min-Max (Median)	2.4–55.9 (12.2)	3.1–45.1 (10.9)	0.170
	Mean±SD	14.83±8.95	13.14±8.45
^bp		0.473	0.293	0.927
Difference; Min-Max (Median)		-37.70/38.90 (-1.00)	-24.10/20.39 (-0.86)
APACHE II	Min-Max (Median)	10–40 (28.5)	10–32 (23.5)	0.001^**
	Mean±SD	27.83±5.76	23.84±5.26

APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; CRP: C-reactive protein; PCT: Procalcitonin; SIRS: Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; sTREM-1: Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1; WBC: White blood cell;

Mann-Whitney U test;

Wilcoxon signed-rank test;

p<0.05;

^**

p<0.01