The Predictive Value of Adrenomedullin for Development of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Emergency Department

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Variables	Deteriorative group	Stable; group	𝑃
𝑁	71	301
Age (years)	72 (60–78)	71 (59–78)	0.825
Male, 𝑛 (%)	46 (64.8)	184 (61.1)	0.590
Comorbidities, 𝑛 (%)
COPD	26 (36.6)	98 (32.6)	0.576
Asthma	5 (7.0)	26 (8.6)	0.813
Hypertension	42 (59.2)	165 (54.8)	0.596
Diabetes	36 (50.7)	175 (58.1)	0.287
Stable CAD without HF	29 (40.8)	116 (38.5)	0.787
Noncomorbidity	16 (22.5)	62 (20.6)	0.746
Infection site, 𝑛 (%)
Pneumonia	48 (67.6)	208 (69.1)	0.887
IAI	18 (25.4)	78 (25.9)	1.000
Meningitis	3 (4.2)	5 (1.7)	0.181
Pyelonephritis	2 (2.8)	10 (3.3)	0.590
Positive culture result, 𝑛 (%)	45 (63.4)	153 (50.8)	0.064
APACHE II score	14.14 ± 6.26	14.05 ± 6.34	0.834
SOFA score	3 (2–5)	3 (2–5)	0.237

ED: emergency department; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CAD: coronary arterial disease; HF: heart failure; IAI: intraabdominal infection; APACHE: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.