Table 1 Characteristics of healthy controls and non surviving critically ill patients
From: Critical illness induces alternative activation of M2 macrophages in adipose tissue
Healthy controls | Critically ill patients: postmortem biopsies | |
|---|---|---|
Number | 20 | 61 |
Gender (no. male) | 14 | 36 |
Age (yr) (mean ± SD) | 70 ± 12 | 67 ± 15 |
BMI (kg/m2) (mean ± SD) | 25.0 ± 2.6 | 24.1 ± 3.5 |
History of diabetes (no.) | 3 | 9 |
APACHE-II score on admission (median (IQR)) | - | 26 (20 to 34) |
Admission diagnose | - | |
- Cardiovascular | 5 | |
- Gastrointestinal or liver | 5 | |
- Hematologic or oncologic | 10 | |
- Neurologic | 3 | |
- Renal | 2 | |
- Respiratory | 30 | |
- Other | 6 | |
ICU stay (median (IQR)) | 0 | 10 (6 to 19) |
Cause of death in ICU | - | |
- Severe brain damage | 2 | |
- Respiratory failure | 26 | |
- Therapy resistant septic shock/cardiovascular collapse | 14 | |
- Persistent MOF after septic or SIRS induced shock | 19 |