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From: Circulating retinol binding protein 4 in critically ill patients before specific treatment: prognostic impact and correlation with organ function, metabolism and inflammation

Figure 2

Impact of primary diagnosis on serum RBP4 concentrations at admission to the medical intensive care unit (ICU). (a) Among critically ill patients, serum RBP4 levels do not differ between patients with sepsis of pulmonary origin as compared to sepsis of nonpulmonary (non-pulmo.) origin. Lowest RBP4 levels are found in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. P values (Mann-Whitney U test) are given in the figure. (b) No significant differences are detected for C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in ICU patients with either sepsis of pulmonary or nonpulmonary origin, but both sepsis groups show higher values than the nonsepsis groups. Boxplots are displayed, where the bold line indicates the median per group, the box represents 50% of the values, and horizontal lines show minimum and maximum values of the calculated nonoutlier values; asterisks and open circles indicate outlier values.

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