Table 1

Patient demographics at ICU admission stratified by admission diagnosis of sepsis and AKI

Characteristics
None (n = 57,392)
Sepsis, no AKI (n = 19,336)
Nonseptic AKI (n = 29,356)
Septic AKI (n = 14,039)
P

Age (years)
58.6 (17.8)
57.4 (17.9)
68.1 (15.2)
66.7 (15.5)
<0.0001
Male sex (%)
61.9
59.3
57.1
54.6
<0.0001
Co-morbid disease (%)
26.4
27.5
31.1
34
<0.0001
     Cardiovascular
15.4
11.8
18.4
15.1
<0.0001
     Respiratory
7.7
8.0
9.3
9.8
<0.0001
     Liver
1.8
2.2
2.6
3.5
<0.0001
     Immunocompromised
3.5
6.6
4.4
9.0
<0.0001
     Haematologic malignancy
1.0
2.5
1.5
3.9
<0.0001
     Metastatic cancer
2.8
3.7
2.4
3.5
0.57
Surgical (%)
62.1
37.9
49.0
16.3
<0.0001
     Emergency
27.3
33.8
36.9
49.9
<0.0001

AKI, acute kidney injury; ICU, intensive care unit.

Bagshaw et al. Critical Care 2008 12:R47   doi:10.1186/cc6863