Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis “Yang-Xu Zheng”: Significant Prognostic Predictor for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Table 6

APACHE II score and host reactive cytokine levels between septic patients with and without Yang-Xu Zheng.

	With; Yang-Xu Zheng; (𝑛=65)	Without; Yang-Xu Zheng; (𝑛=61)	𝑃 value
Severity scoring
APACHE II	31.8±7.8	27.8±7.1	<0.01
Host reactive cytokine
TNF-α ^a	1.6±0.5	1.4±0.5	<0.01
IL-6^a	3.3±0.9	2.8±0.8	<0.01
IL-8^a	2.5±0.6	2.2±0.5	<0.01
IL-10^a	2.3±0.7	2.0±0.7	<0.01
IL-18^a	2.9±0.2	2.8±0.3	<0.01

APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II.
Continuous data are presented as Mean ± SD.
Values have been calculated using Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test.
TNF: tumor necrosis factor.
IL: interleukin.
^aBased on log transformed values (pg/mL).
𝑃<0.05 statistically significant.
NS: not significant.