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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Resusc. 2019 Mar;21(1):39–44.

Table 1:

Patient demographics in the retrospective cohort and the VITdAL-ICU Cohort.

Patient baseline characteristics
Retrospective Cohort VITdAL ICU Cohort (N= 475)
N = 628 Placebo N = 238 Vitamin D3 N = 237
Gender: Female n (%) 235 (37.4) 83 (35) 83 (35)
Age median (IQR) 65 (52, 74.5) 68 (56, 76) 66 (55, 75)
SAPS II at ICU admission, mean (SD) 29.4 (15.7) 34.2 (15.7) 32.4 (15)
TISS-28 mean (SD) 31.7 (8.8) 38.0 (8.2) 37.7 (7.6)
25-hydroxyvitamin D (ng/mL) mean (SD) 19.6 (11.3) 13.1 (4.3) 13.0 (4.0)
ICU mortality n (%) 83 (13.2) 63 (26.5) 54 (22.8)
Hospital mortality n (%) 116 (18.5) 84 (35.3) 67 (28.3)
ICU length of stay (d) median (IQR) 6 (3, 11) 10.7 (0.1, 154.1) 9.6 (0.2, 181)
Persistent Critical Illness n (%) 181 (28.8) 116 (48.7) 106 (44.7)
Hospital length of stay (d) median (IQR) 7 (0, 15) 19.3 (0.1, 154.1) 20.1 (0.2, 181)
ICU type
 Cardiac Surgery n (%) 102 (16.2) 69 (29.0) 68 (34.1)
 Medical ICU n (%) 228 (36.3) 53 (22.3) 52 (21.9)
 Mixed Surgery-Medicine n (%) 110 (17.5) 58 (24.4) 59 (24.9)
 Neurologic ICU n (%) 160 (25.5) 61 (25.6) 54 (22.8)
 Neurosurgery ICU n (%) 28 (4.5)

SAPS II: Simplified acute physiology score; TISS-28: Therapeutic Intervention Score; ICU: Intensive care unit; IQR: interquartile range; d: day