Table 1 |
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Demographic characteristics of patients with sepsis from 1979 to 2003. |
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Patients with diabetes |
Patients with no diabetes |
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Number of patients (n) |
2,070,459 |
10,430,000 |
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Age (mean, years) |
68 |
59 |
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Race |
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Caucasian |
64% |
67% |
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Black |
17% |
14% |
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Other |
5% |
4% |
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Unknown |
14% |
15% |
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Gender |
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Male (%) |
43% |
49% |
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Female (%) |
57% |
51% |
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Pathogens (%) |
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Gram negatives |
25% |
22% |
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Gram positives |
29% |
28% |
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Anaerobic |
1% |
1% |
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Fungal |
2.4% |
2.2% |
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Unknown |
43% |
49% |
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Number of co-morbidities (mean) |
2.07 |
0.88 |
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Number of dysfunctional organ systems (mean) |
0.36 |
0.41 |
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Mean hospital length of stay (days) |
13 |
14 |
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Case fatality (%) |
18.5% |
20.6% |
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Esper et al. Critical Care 2009 13:R18 doi:10.1186/cc7717 |
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