Table 1.

Basic clinical characteristics and disease severity scores of the participants.

Characteristics	Healthy controls (n = 3)	Severe HS (n = 6)	P-value
ICU length of stay (days), median (interquartile range)	0 (0)	10 (3–17.45)	<0.001
T (°C)	36.42 ± 0.46	39.00 ± 1.94	<0.001
APACHE II score	0.47 ± 0.83	17.05 ± 4.35	<0.001
SOFA score	0.6 ± 0.63	10.95 ± 5.64	<0.001

APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; ICU, intensive care unit; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; T, body temperature.