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Table 1 Characteristics of critically ill patients and age-, sex, and BMI-matched healthy volunteer controls whose peripheral blood was used to isolate PBMCs for in vitro osteoclast differentiation studies

From: Critical illness-induced bone loss is related to deficient autophagy and histone hypomethylation

Characteristic

Patients

Controls

p

n

6

6

 

Age (years), median (IQR)

51 (24–82)

53 (25–90)

0.88

Male gender, %

83 %

83 %

>0.99

BMI (kg/m2), mean ± SD

25.6 ± 5.4

25.4 ± 2.9

0.93

ICU stay upon day of sampling (days), median (IQR)

15.3 (7–39)

n/a

 

APACHE-II score upon day of sampling, median (IQR)

27.8 (12–41)

n/a

 

WBC upon day of sampling, median (IQR)

14.2 (9–18)

n/a

 

CRP upon day of sampling, median (IQR)

143.8 (31–303)

n/a