Table 2.

Differences in serum concentrations of CRP, PCT, IL-6, and sTREM-1 between the analyzed subgroups.

	Control vs. N-SIRS	Control vs. SIRS	Control vs. sepsis	N-SIRS vs. SIRS/sepsis	SIRS vs. sepsis
	p value
CRP (mg/l)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.165	0.414
PCT (ng/ml)	0.008	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.12
IL-6 (pg/ml)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.005	0.39
sTREM-1 (pg/ml)	0.101	0.013	0.001	0.048	0.389