Fig 1.
Study design and a flowchart of the recruitment process and the reasons for exclusion.
Abbreviations: AKI, acute kidney injury; CKD, chronic kidney disease.
Fig 2.
A) Frequency of dyschloremia before and after the ICU admission; B) Incidence of AKI according to the baseline serum chloride concentrations; C) Incidence of AKI stages according to the baseline serum chloride concentrations; D) Hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality according to different baseline serum chloride concentrations; E) Hospital and ICU length of stay (LOS) according to different baseline serum chloride concentrations.
Table 1.
Characteristics and Outcome of Patients with Baseline Chloride Disturbance*.
Table 2.
Factors associated with Hypochloremia.
Univariate and Multivariate Analysis.
Table 3.
Univariate and Multivariate Analysis.