Figure 1

Circulating adipokines during critical illness. (a-c) Impact of acute illness: Results from healthy volunteers, patients not critically ill undergoing elective surgery, and critically ill patients on admission to the ICU are presented as box plots (boxes are medians and interquartile ranges; whiskers are 10^th and 90^th percentiles). (d-f) Critically ill patients who received CIT (white bars) or IIT (gray bars). Reference values (mean ± SEM) of healthy controls are indicated by two horizontal dotted lines. Adm = admission day; D5 = day 5; D10 = day 10; LD = the last day of ICU stay; ICU = intensive care unit. Data are presented as mean ± SEM. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01. For statistical analysis, we subtracted corresponding admission-day values, and for leptin, we used log-transformed data as indicated on the figure.