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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 2.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Crit Care. 2016 May;25(3):e56–e63. doi: 10.4037/ajcc2016317

Table.

Demographics of 133 study participants

Characteristic No. Mean SD Minimum Maximum
Age, y 133 55.86 17.21 18.00 90.00
BMIa 133 27.96 6.68 12.05 44.93
APACHE III score 133 77.50 27.29 20.00 154.00
Braden score 131 12.71 1.68 9.00 19.00
Characteristic No. %b
Sex
 Male   76 57.1
 Female   57 42.9
Race
 Black/African American   66 49.6
 Unknown or not reported     2   1.5
 White   65 48.9
Ethnicity
 Hispanic     2   1.5
 Non-Hispanic 131 98.5
Intensive care unit
 Medical respiratory   61 45.9
 Neuroscience   30 22.6
 Surgical trauma   42 31.6
BMI group
 < 19     8   6.0
 19 ≤ BMI < 25   41 30.8
 25 ≤ BMI < 30   36 27.1
 > 30   48 36.1

Abbreviations: APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; BMI, body mass index.

a

Calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.

b

Because of rounding, not all percentages total 100.