Table 2.

Patient Characteristics—Comparison between Early, Late-Low, and Late-High Protein.

Characteristic	Early Protein	Late-Low Protein	Late-High Protein	p
n	1040	488	725
Age	59.22 (19.18)	60.39 (16.44)	57.64 (18.18)	0.031
Male Sex	651 (62.6)	319 (65.4)	477 (65.8)	0.324
Weight	73.74 (13.91)	96.81 (24.16)	78.35 (15.86)	<0.001
Height	1.69 (0.09)	1.71 (0.09)	1.70 (0.09)	<0.001
Body surface area	1.84 (0.18)	2.07 (0.23)	1.89 (0.19)	<0.001
Body mass index	25.80 (4.47)	33.38 (10.09)	27.25 (5.66)	<0.001
SOFA score	7.69 (3.30)	8.43 (3.82)	8.25 (3.74)	<0.001
Ventilated	1031 (99.1)	470 (96.3)	717 (98.9)	<0.001
Vasopressors	396 (38.1)	193 (39.5)	295 (40.7)	0.536
Cardiac	171 (16.4)	86 (17.6)	108 (14.9)	0.432
Sepsis	169 (16.2)	91 (18.6)	127 (17.5)	0.489
Surgical	311 (29.9)	132 (27.0)	213 (29.4)	0.51
Trauma	131 (12.6)	45 (9.2)	76 (10.5)	0.114
Respiratory	177 (17.0)	91 (18.6)	111 (15.3)	0.305
Enteral Calories	1457.64 (545.94)	1098.65 (632.99)	1314.54 (748.29)	<0.001
Parenteral Calories	317.51 (578.83)	262.91 (453.08)	444.12 (646.79)	<0.001
Total Calories	1780.17 (444.29)	1369.46 (679.59)	1758.31 (787.96)	<0.001
Calculated energy expenditure	1843.56 (347.63)	2420.13 (604.00)	1958.86 (396.40)	<0.001
Administered calories to energy expenditure	0.98 (0.25)	0.58 (0.28)	0.92 (0.44)	<0.001
Significant parenteral nutrition	127 (12.2)	50 (10.2)	134 (18.5)	<0.001
Total protein delivered	1193.92 (939.76)	561.80 (600.06)	1199.33 (981.55)	<0.001
Daily protein delivered	71.18 (16.79)	45.76 (13.76)	64.69 (17.09)	<0.001
Daily protein, g/kg	0.98 (0.22)	0.48 (0.10)	0.84 (0.22)	<0.001
Daily protein, g/kg, first 3 days	0.93 (0.19)	0.38 (0.19)	0.39 (0.20)	<0.001
Daily protein, g/kg, other days	1.01 (0.24)	0.48 (0.12)	0.93 (0.23)	<0.001

For continuous variables data presented as mean (sd) and discrete variables as n (%).