Table 3 Comparison between patients with septic shock and without septic shock

From: Vitamin A deficiency in critically ill children with sepsis

	Septic shock N = 25	Non-septic shock N = 135	P value
Age, months	14.00 (1.00, 60.05)	12.00 (3.00, 50.00)	0.841^a
Weight, kg	8.00 (4.25, 15.50)	7.5 (4.00, 14.50)	0.842^a
Male, n (%)	16 (64.0%)	75 (55.6%)	0.434^b
PRISM	18.00 (15.0, 34.0)	10.00 (6.00, 14.00)	0.000^a
Temperature, °C	39.00 (38.20, 39.50)	38.50 (37.70, 39.20)	0.083^a
PCT, μg/L	42.76 (5.56,100.00)	2.36 (0.70, 9.03)	0.000^a
PLT, × 10⁹/L	84.00 (48.50, 195.50)	282.0 (157.0, 369.00)	0.000^a
WBC, × 10⁹/L	10.95 (3.95, 15.79)	12.58 (8.14, 16.50)	0.204^a
Lactate, mmol/L	5.10 (3.80, 7.90)	2.30 (1.60, 3.40)	0.000^a
Hypoglycemia, n (%)	10 (40%)	10 (7.4%)	0.000^c
Positive blood culture, n (%)	4 (16.0%)	10 (7.4%)	0.237^c
VAD, n (%)	20 (80.0%)	74 (54.8%)	0.019^b
Ventilation time, hours	182.00 (72.00, 350.00)	20.00 (5.00, 72.00)	0.000^a
Length of ICU stay, days	12.70 (7.85, 33.95)	5.80 (3.10, 11.50)	0.000^a
Length of hospital stay, days	18.00 (12.10, 42.35)	14.00 (8.80, 22.00)	0.043^a
Hospital mortality, n (%)	4 (16.0%)	3 (2.2%)	0.012^c
28-day mortality, n (%)	6 (24.0%)	5 (3.7%)	0.002^c

^aMann-Whitney U test
^bChi-squared test
^cFisher exact test

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