Regulation and Prognostic Relevance of Symmetric Dimethylarginine Serum Concentrations in Critical Illness and Sepsis

Table 2

Disease etiology of the study population.

	Sepsis	Nonsepsis
	𝑛=160
Etiology of sepsis critical illness 𝑛 (%)
Site of infection
Pulmonary	91 (56.9)
Abdominal	29 (18.1)
Urogenital	14 (8.8)
Other	26 (16.2)
Etiology of nonsepsis critical illness 𝑛 (%)
Cardiopulmonary disorder		35 (40.2)
Acute pancreatitis		11 (12.6)
Decompensated liver cirrhosis		16 (18.4)
Severe gastrointestinal hemorrhage		7 (8.0)
Non-sepsis other		18 (20.7)