Figure 1.
The Study Flowchart.
Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and clinical features of patients with severe sepsis in their first-episode ICU admission.
Table 2.
Outcomes of acute organ dysfunction(s) and 90-days in-hospital mortality rate in patients with severe sepsis by diabetes mellitus status.
Figure 2.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with severe sepsis shown by type of acute organ dysfunction. Log-rank test was used for comparing their survival.
Figure 3.
Kaplan-Meier survival curves in diabetic and non-diabetic patients with severe sepsis by number involvement of organ dysfunction. Log-rank test was used for comparing their survival.
Table 3.
Cox proportional hazard model assessing the effect of diabetes on 90-days hospital mortality in patients with severe sepsis having at least one organ dysfunction in their first-episode ICU admission.
Table 4.
Total days of stay per ICU hospitalization.
Table 5.
Multiple logistic regression analysis to predict the occurrence of mortality based on diabetes, gender, age group, Charlson comorbidities index and number of organ failure.
Table 6.
Previous published works comparing the outcomes particularly the mortality rate between diabetics and nondiabetics with sepsis or severe infection.