Table I:

Demographics, co-morbidities, worst lactate, and in-hospital mortality for each of the 3 groups

	Healthy Control	Cardiac Arrest	Sepsis
N (sample size)	34	25	25
Age (median, IQR)	28.0 (25.5–33.5)	68.0 (57.0–75.0)	64.0 (56.0–71.0)
Gender (% female)	76.5	40.0	40.0
Race (% white)	88.2	80.0	80.0
Worst Lactate (within 24 hr of admission), median, IQR)	N/A	6.6 (4.3–8.8)	2.1 (1.5–3.0)
Comorbidities (% yes)
Diabetes Mellitus	0.0	36.0	20.0
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	0.0	20.0	24.0
Congestive Heart Failure	0.0	12.0	16.0
Chronic Kidney Disease	0.0	16.0	8.0
Initial rhythm (% shockable)	N/A	52.0	N/A
Hospital Mortality (% died)	0.0	56.0	20.0