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Table 2 Percentage of patients per APACHE II admission category

From: Mean glucose during ICU admission is related to mortality by a U-shaped curve in surgical and medical patients: a retrospective cohort study

 

Medical population

Surgical population

 

Total

n= 1,339

≤6.6 mmol/L

n= 268

'Safe range'

n= 804

≥8.5 mmol/L

n= 267

Total

n= 4,489

≤6.9 mmol/L

n= 898

'Safe range'

n= 2,694

≥9.5 mmol/L

n= 897

Cardiovascular

18.0

11.6

19.9

18.7

88.2

81.0

88.3

95.1

Sepsis

16.5

22.8

16.0

11.6

1.2

2.8

1.0

0.1

After cardiac arrest

21.6

11.9

21.5

31.5

0.2

0.6

0.1

0.1

Gastrointestinal

4.3

4.1

4.2

4.9

5.3

8.7

5.0

2.8

Hematological

0.6

0.7

0.7

0

0.2

0.4

0.1

0.1

Renal

1.9

1.5

1.0

5.2

0.3

0.6

0.2

0.1

Metabolic

3.6

3.0

2.7

6.7

0.2

0.1

0.2

0.1

Neurological

11.5

18.3

10.3

8.2

0.9

1.1

1.0

0.3

Respiratory

22.0

26.1

23.5

13.1

3.6

4.8

4.0

1.2

  1. The 'safe range' refers to the mean glucose levels associated with the lowest mortality rates: 6.7 to 8.4 mmol/L in the medical cohort and 7.0 to 9.4 mmol/L in the surgical cohort. APACHE II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II.