Figure 1.

Blood iodide increases in sepsis and trauma patients. Black dots represent plasma iodide values from healthy nonmedical volunteers, n = 208, mean = 5.7 ng/mL, sd = 4.1, sem = 0.28, range = 0.80–23 ng/mL; blue dots are trauma plasma iodide values, n = 19, mean = 99 ng/mL, sd = 147, sem = 34, range = 1.2–504 ng/mL; red dots are sepsis, n = 86, mean = 146 ng/mL, sd = 130, sem = 14, range = 4.3–706 ng/mL. t test comparing Healthy and Trauma using Welch’s correction for unequal variance, p = 0.0063, and t test comparing Healthy and Sepsis using Welch’s correction for unequal variance, p < 0.0001