Impairment of neutrophilic glucocorticoid receptor function in patients treated with steroids for septic shock

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 1 Demographics of patients and healthy subjects

Parameter	GC (n = 14)	No GC (n = 6)	Healthy subjects (n = 16)
Men/women	7/7^a	3/3	3/12^b
Age, mean (SD) years	62.2 (12.3)	62.3 (19.1)	45.4 (11.1)
Source of sepsis^c
Lungs	9	1
Abdomen	2	2
Wound	1	2
Urinary tract	2	1
Unknown	0	1
SAPS III, mean (SD)	67.6 (17.2)	65.9 (15.1)
Alive/all at
T0	12/12	8/8
T1	12/12	8/8
T2	13/13	7/7
T3	12/14	6/6
T4	9/14	3/6

GC patients treated with glucocorticoids, No GC patients not treated with glucocorticoids at any time
^aTwo patients were GC-non-treated until T2 and T3, respectively
^bGender and age were not registered from one healthy subject
^cOne patient had sepsis from two suspected sources