Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study
| Variable | HPE group n = 87 |
Control group n = 94 |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (yr), mean (SD) | 67.6 (17.8) | 65.3 (19.7) | 0,41 |
| Female, n (%) | 34 (39) | 48 (51) | 0,110 |
| SAPS 3 score, Median (IQR) | 55 (44–66) | 50 (48.7–68) | 0,07 |
| SOFA score, Median (IQR) | 5 (3–9) | 6 (3.7–8) | 0,73 |
| NRS - 2002, Mean (SD) | 4,1 (1,0) | 4,2 (1,1) | 0,59 |
| Admission Category, n (%) | 0,89 | ||
| medical | 64 (73) | 70 (74) | |
| surgical | 23 (27) | 24 (26) | |
| Primary ICU diagnosis, n (%) | 0,72 | ||
| Respiratory | 28 (32) | 26 (30) | |
| Cardiovascular | 6 (7) | 8 (10) | |
| Neurological | 17 (20) | 17 (20) | |
| Gastrointestinal | 9 (10) | 8 (9) | |
| Renal | 3 (4) | 2 (3) | |
| Trauma | 6 (7) | 4 (5) | |
| Others | 15 (17) | 20 (23) |
SAPS 3, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; NRS-2002, Nutrition Risk Score-2002; IQR, Interquartile range