Research Article
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 () | Nonsepsis group () |
| Age (years) | | | Sex ratio (M/F) | 50/40 | 47/43 | SOFA score mean (range) | 14 (10–16)* | 8 (4–12) | Duration of ICU stay | | | 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 |
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Statistically significant ().
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