Table 2.

Relationship Between Admission Microparticle Concentration, Clinical Characteristics (A), and Laboratory Variables (B) on Admission for ALI/ALF

A.
Clinical Variable (N)		Microparticle Size (μm)
		0.15–0.27	0.28–0.35	0.36–0.64	>0.64
		Log10MP/mL
Etiology	APAP (25)	9.98 ± 1.22	8.83 ± 1.04	7.84 ± 0.81	7.65 ± 0.62
	Non-APAP (25)	9.98 ± 1.00	8.98 ± 0.48	8.07 ± 0.38	8.00 ± 0.46*
SIRS N	0–1 (22)	9.68 ± 1.01	8.65 ± 0.53	7.66 ± 0.50	7.71 ± 0.55
	2–4 (28)	10.21 ± 1.13	9.11 ± 0.93*	8.19 ± 0.64†	7.92 ± 0.57
HE grade	0–2 (26)	9.72 ± 0.98	8.68 ± 0.56	7.71 ± 0.48	7.72 ± 0.50
	3–4 (24)	10.25 ± 1.18	9.15 ± 0.96*	8.23 ± 0.69†	7.95 ± 0.62
Bleeding	No (41)	9.84 ± 0.93	8.77 ± 0.52	7.86 ± 0.53	7.78 ± 0.50
	Yes (9)	10.60 ± 1.60	9.50 ± 1.45†	8.39 ± 0.91*	8.06 ± 0.82
Thrombosis	No (41)	10.01 ± 1.15	8.90 ± 0.86	7.93 ± 0.66	7.83 ± 0.58
	Yes (9)	9.84 ± 0.87	8.93 ± 0.49	8.09 ± 0.52	7.83 ± 0.53*
Infection	No (37)	9.96 ± 0.93	8.84 ± 0.57	7.88 ± 0.58	7.81 ± 0.50
	Yes (13)	10.02 ± 1.53	9.08 ± 1.27	8.17 ± 0.76	7.89 ± 0.74
RRT	No (32)	9.83 ± 0.94	8.72 ± 0.57	7.77 ± 0.55	7.69 ± 0.48
	Yes (18)	10.24 ± 1.32	9.23 ± 1.05*	8.30 ± 0.65†	8.07 ± 0.64*

B.
Laboratory Variables	Microparticle Size (μm)
	0.15–0.27	0.28–0.35	0.36–0.64	>0.64
Phosphate	0.35†	0.52§	0.52§	0.51‡
Bicarbonate	−0.06	−0.23	−0.44‡	−0.14
Creatinine	0.22	0.10	0.31*	0.18
ALT	−0.19	−0.32*	−0.37†	−0.46‡
Factor VIII	0.07	0.36*	0.34*	0.43†
MP-TF activity	0.33*	0.42†	0.28	0.22

Numbers in (A) represent log₁₀MP/mL of the indicated size ± SD. Numbers in (B) represent Pearson’s r values, with negative numbers denoting inverse correlation.

^*P ≤ 0.05.

^†P ≤ 0.01.

^‡P ≤ 0.001.

^§P ≤ 0.0001.