Screening and risk factors of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in critically ill adult patients receiving enteral nutrition

Table 2 Association between exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and clinical characteristics in critically ill adult patients^a

Characteristics	Number of Patients	EPI (n= 294)	None-EPI (n= 269)	P value
Shock	114	28.9	10.8	<0.001^b
Anaemia	64	8.8	14.1	0.065
Sepsis	78	17.7	9.7	0.009^b
Diabetes	121	27.2	15.2	<0.001^b
Obesity	293	51.0	53.2	0.662
Cardiac arrest	83	21.1	7.8	<0.001^b
Respiratory failure	173	28.6	33.1	0.287
Hyperbilirubinemia	43	9.2	6.3	0.124
Brain injury	185	35.7	29.7	0.154
Hyperlactacidemia	136	33.0	14.5	<0.001^b
Hypertriglyceridemia	114	22.8	17.5	0.145
Mechanical ventilation	281	57.1	42.0	<0.001^b
CRRT	58	13.9	6.3	0.005^b

^a CRRT, continuous renal replacement therapy; EPI, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. ^bP < 0.05 compared with patients without EPI based on z-test. Data are presented as the percentage of the patients with relevant clinical characteristics.

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