The Value of Admission Serum IL-8 Monitoring and the Correlation with IL-8 (-251A/T) Polymorphism in Critically Ill Patients

Table 1

Patient characteristics (mean and standard deviation).

	Sepsis group; (𝑛=90)	Nonsepsis group; (𝑛=90)
Age (years)	57.8±13.4	54.8±11.9
Sex ratio (M/F)	50/40	47/43
SOFA score mean (range)	14 (10–16)*	8 (4–12)
Duration of ICU stay	9.96±3.007^∗	5.7±2.27
Diagnosis
Respiratory insufficiency; due to:
Bacterial infection	27
ARDS	15
COPD		25
Bronchial asthma		10
Pulmonary edema		11
Polytrauma	18	17
Orthopedic surgery	17	15
Thoracic surgery	13	12

∗Statistically significant (𝑃<0.05).