[Retracted] C-Reactive Protein, Procalcitonin, and a Novel Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Target of Thrombocytopenia in Sepsis

Table 8

Comparison of clinical data between sepsis and nonsepsis patients.

	Total	Sepsis	Non sepsis
Number of cases	455	352	103	—
Gender
Male	249	192 (54.3%)	57 (55.5%)	—
Female	206	160 (45.3%)	46 (44.5%)	0.888
Age	63.4 ± 17.6	64.4 ± 17.3	59.9 ± 18.4	0.732
Admission route
Emergency treatment	195	173 (49.3%)	22 (21.6%)	—
Outpatient department	260	179 (50.7%)	81 (78.8%)	<0.001
Admission
Critical	76	70 (19.7%)	6 (5.9%)	—
Urgent	131	119 (33.6%)	12 (11.5%)	—
Commonly	248	163 (46.5%)	85 (82.3%)	<0.001
CRP (IQR) mg/L	124.3 (119.5)	146.6 (115.7)	58.7 (65.3)	<0.001
PCT (IQR) ng/mL	6.4 (37.7)	12.5 (45.2)	0.6 (0.7)	<0.001
WBC^a (IQR) × 10^9/L	10.7 (9.4)	11.5 (10.4)	8.4 (8.4)	<0.001
WBC^b	—	—	—	—
>12 × 10^9/L or <4 × 10^9/L	253	218 (61.7%)	35 (34.2%)	—
4 × 10^9/L∼12 × 10^9/L	202	134 (38.2%)	68 (66.2%)	<0.001