Table 1.

Characteristics of health controls and sepsis patients enrolled.

Group	Health control	Sepsis patients
Number	8	31
Gender (male/female)	4/4	16/15
Age(years)	48.40 ± 5.18	56.20 ± 14.40
ALT (U/L) (Mean±SD)	17.12 ± 9.23	91.38 ± 70.27
AST (U/L) (Mean±SD)	18.00 ± 4.27	73.06 ± 49.34
CRP (mg/L) (Mean±SD)	1.92 ± 0.83	55.56 ± 29.32
Pct (mg/L) (Mean±SD)	0.018 ± 0.011	17.18 ± 21.74
DBIL (μmol/L) (Mean±SD)	4.85 ± 1.62	20.43 ± 8.22
IBIL (μmol/L) (Mean±SD)	7.49 ± 2.91	8.76 ± 6.52
TBIL (μmol /L) (Mean±SD)	12.35 ± 3.21	29.20 ± 9.57