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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the patients for all recruited patients and comparing the non-survivors with survivors within 90-days

From: Sepsis-related deaths in the at-risk population on the wards: attributable fraction of mortality in a large point-prevalence study

 

All patients (n = 839)

Non-survivors (n = 222)

Survivors (n = 617)

P-value

Age, median (range)

73 (18–103)

79.5 (22–103)

70 (18–100)

< 0.0001

Sex, male

411 (49%)

120 (54.05%)

291 (47.16%)

0.078

COPD

230 (27.4%)

50 (23.36%)

180 (30.05%)

0.062

Diabetes

173 (20.6%)

64 (29.91%)

109 (18.20%)

0.0003

Drug abuse

13 (1.5%)

0 (0%)

13 (2.17%)

0.03

Heart failure

94 (11.2%)

43 (20.09%)

51 (8.51%)

<  0.0001

Hypertension

272 (32.4%)

76 (35.51%)

196 (32.72%)

0.457

Ischaemic heart disease

145 (17.3%)

46 (21.5%)

99 (16.53%)

0.103

Liver disease

24 (2.9%)

11 (5.14%)

13 (2.17%)

0.028

Neuromuscular disease

29 (3.5%)

11 (5.14%)

18 (3.01%)

0.148

Recent chemotherapy

35 (4.2%)

13 (6.07%)

22 (3.67%)

0.137

Smoker

111 (13.2%)

21 (9.81%)

90 (15.03%)

0.057

Ex-smoker

221 (26.3%)

65 (30.37%)

156 (26.04%)

0.222

Mean number of co-morbidities, median (range)

2 (0–6)

2 (0–6)

1 (0–6)

0.009

  1. Values are number (proportion) or median (range). Comparison between survivors and non-survivors was performed using Chi square or Mann–Whitney U test. P-value of less than 0.05 is italic