Table 3.

Characteristics of patients with BMI > 30 (ON-AC versus OFF-AC protocol)

	ON-AC protocol (n = 46)	OFF-AC protocol (n = 54)	p-value
Gender (male)	68.5%	69.5%	0.91
Age (average, SD)	55.7 + 11	59.03 + 15.03	0.12
BMI (average, SD)	35.4 + 5.2	36.3 + 5.3	0.72
SOFA score (average, SD)	6.08 + 2.4	6.72 + 2.5	0.83
Creatinine (admission)	1.16 + 0.09	1.43 + 0.23	0.40
Mortality	26%	61.1%	0.0004
Maximum D-dimer (mean, SE)	6304 + 1409	9772 + 1647	0.024
Steroids	84%	86%	0.76
Hypertension	63%	55.5%	0.44
Congestive heart failure (CHF)	2%	5.5%	0.39
Diabetes, type I or II	32.6%	20.3%	0.16
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	8.6%	7.4%	0.8
Chronic kidney disease (CKD)	4.3%	1.8%	0.46