High Mobility Group Box-1 Protein and Outcomes in Critically Ill Surgical Patients Requiring Open Abdominal Management

Figure 1

Plasma HMGB-1 levels at enrolment and 24 and 48 hours in relation to survivorship. Boxes represent median and interquartile values, while whiskers represent the maximum and minimum values within 1.5 interquartile ranges (IQRs) of the upper and lower quartile, respectively. Outliers are plotted separately and represented as “+”. No significant differences were observed between survivors and nonsurvivors at all time points (baseline: ; 24 hours: = 0.54; 48 hours: = 0.37). A total of 44 patients were sampled: 29 survivors and 15 nonsurvivors.