Table 1.

Clinical data of patients and healthy controls

	Control (n = 20)	SIRS (n = 34)	Sepsis (n = 34)
Age	63.20 ± 8.82	57.06 ± 21.91	67.50 ± 12.59
Gender (M/F)	14/6	20/14	20/14
IL-6 (pg/mL)	6.63 (3.42–23.39)	77.41 (3.31–1971.00)**	100.65 (8.41–5900.00)**
WBC (×109/L)	6.87 ± 1.62	16.62 ± 4.58**	18.40 ± 3.52**
CRP (mg/L)	4.00 (1.00–33.00)	37.50 (1.00–177.00)**	51.00 (0.49–325.00)**

compared with control, **p < 0.01