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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2017 Aug 16;43:61–64. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2017.08.022

Table 1.

Patient characteristicsa

Thiamine
n = 34
No Thiamine
n = 19
P-value
Demographics
 Age (years) 57 (49, 64) 62 (44, 68) 0.74
 Gender (female) 11 (32) 8 (42) 0.56
 Race (white) 23 (68) 10 (53) 0.47
 Body mass index (kg/m2) 28 (22, 33) 25 (24, 26) 0.19
Alcohol use disordersb
 Alcohol dependence syndrome 26 (76) 13 (68) 0.53
 Alcoholic liver disease 22 (65) 11 (58) 0.77
 Alcohol-induced mental disorders 5 (15) 0 (0) 0.15
 Alcoholic cardiomyopathy 0 (0) 1 (5) 0.36
Co-morbidities
 Heart failure 5 (15) 2 (11) 1.00
 Hypertension 18 (53) 8 (42) 0.57
 Diabetes 8 (24) 5 (26) 1.00
 Renal disease 3 (9) 3 (16) 0.65
 Liver disease 23 (68) 11 (58) 0.56
 COPD 7 (21) 2 (11) 0.46
Laboratory values
 Hemoglobin (g/dL) 11.0 (10.2, 13.5) 10.7 (8.1, 13.8) 0.83
 White blood cells (103) 10.8 (5.2, 14.0) 11.7 (9.0, 17.0) 0.17
 Bicarbonate (mEq/L) 15 (11, 19) 16 (12, 21) 0.43
 Lactate (mmol/L) 7.1 (5.2, 10.2) 7.9 (5.5, 10.5) 0.67
 Platelets (103) 92 (53, 159) 178 (80, 280) 0.04
 Creatinine (mg/dL) 2.0 (1.1, 3.1) 1.6 (1.3, 3.5) 0.60
 Glucose (mg/dL) 119 (83, 170) 133 (103, 202) 0.37
 Potassium (mEq/L) 4.2 (3.7, 4.7) 4.4 (3.8, 4.9) 0.56
 AST (IU/L) 153 (34, 611) 131 (39, 206) 0.84
 ALT (IU/L) 49 (20, 174) 64 (34, 91) 0.59
 Bilirubin (mg/dL) 4.2 (1.0, 8.7) 1.9 (0.7, 5.4) 0.50
Interventions/Vital signs
 Intubated 27 (79) 18 (95) 0.23
 SOFA score 11 (8, 16) 12 (10, 13) 0.54
a

Categorical variables are presented as count (frequency) and continuous variables as median (quartiles). Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; AST, aspartate transaminase; ALT, alanine transaminase; SOFA, sepsis-related organ failure assessment.

b

Patients may have more than one diagnosis of alcohol use disorder (see Table S1 in the Supplement).