| |
Patients with normal level
|
Patients with low level
| |
Without comorbidity
|
Patients with low level
| | |
|---|
| |
(n = 553)
|
(n = 227)
|
P value
|
(n = 61)
|
one disease (n = 81)
|
>1 disease (n = 85)
|
P value
|
|---|
|
Age (years)
|
53 (16.1)
|
52 (15.2)
|
0.468
|
49 (16.1)
|
51 (14.8)
|
54 (14.6)
| |
|
No (%) male
|
284 (51.4)
|
160 (70.5)
|
<0.001
|
42 (69)
|
59 (73)
|
22 (27)
|
0.843
|
|
No (%) female)
|
269 (48.6)
|
67 (29.5)
| |
19 (31)
|
59 (69)
|
26 (31)
| |
|
APACHE II score
|
14.9 (7.6)
|
14.8 (7.6)
|
0.939
|
12.6 (6.2)
|
14.6 (7.2)
|
16.6 (8.5)
| |
|
Stay in ICU (hours)
|
125.2 (173.7)
|
141.5 (189.9)
|
0.246
|
117.8 (111.7)
|
147.5 (175.3)
|
152.8 (241.3)
| |
|
Stay in hospital (days)
|
14.3 (19.5)
|
15.8 (22.1)
|
0.363
|
13.9 (16.6)
|
15.7 (20.4)
|
17.3 (26.6)
| |
|
Time on ventilator (hours)
|
65.3 (156.7)
|
69.8 (163.5)
|
0.722
|
61.7 (128.2)
|
58.5 (105.0)
|
86.3 (222.1)
| |
|
No (%) deaths during the study
|
38 (6.9)
|
38 (16.7)
|
<0.001
|
6 (9.8)
|
10 (12.3)
|
22 (25.9)
|
0.016
|
- Data are expressed as mean (SD) unless otherwise stated.
- All differences in the table between the patients with low level without comorbidity compared with those with low level and one disease are not significant.
- All differences in the table between the patients with low level without comorbidity compared with those with low level and more than one disease are not significant, except for age (P = 0.035), and for APACHE (P = 0.002).
- All differences in the table between the patients with low level and one comorbidity compared with those with low level and more than one disease are not significant.
