Table 1.

Clinical Profile of SAP Patients at admission in two groups. TCM: traditional Chinese Medicine; APACHE II: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II. The data are presented as the mean plus or minus the mean.

Characteristics	Control (n = 40)	Treatment (n = 40)
Age (year, ±s)	49.4 ± 17.6	52.9 ± 18.9
Gender (case, M/F)	26/14	25/15
Hospital days (day, ±s)	7.9 ± 2.6	9.5 ± 4.3
APACHE II (score, ±s)	3.6 ± 2.2	3.4 ± 2.4
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes (num, ±s)	4.9 ± 2.8	5.3 ± 2.9