Vitamin D deficiency and risk of acute lung injury in severe sepsis and severe trauma: a case-control study

Annals of Intensive Care

Table 4 Survival analysis for delayed, one-year mortality in the sepsis cohort (left) and the trauma cohort (right)

Characteristics	Sepsis cohort			Trauma cohort
	HR	95% CI	P-value	HR	95% CI	P-value
Age (increment of one year)	1.02	1.00 to 1.04	0.023	1.06	1.04 to 1.08	0.023
Gender (male versus female)	1.26	0.90 to 1.78	0.181	2.04	1.00 to 4.18	0.051
Diabetes (yes versus no)	1.04	0.72 to 1.49	0.841	0.63	0.28 to 1.45	0.280
Apache II/ISS score^b	1.35	1.05 to 1.73	0.019	1.04	0.68 to 1.60	0.849
Vitamin D levels (high versus low)^a	0.87	0.68 to 1.10	0.240	0.50	0.35 to 0.72	< 0.001

Abbreviations: HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval.
^athird versus first quartile; sepsis cohort: 58.9 versus 27.6 nmol/L; trauma cohort: 71.9 versus 37.2 nmol/L.
^bthird versus first quartile; sepsis cohort: Apache II score, 32.2 versus 23; trauma cohort: ISS score, 36.0 versus 23.5.