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Table 1 Baseline characteristics for ALL and matched-INDICATED populations by treatment

From: Pharmacogenomic biomarkers do not predict response to drotrecogin alfa in patients with severe sepsis

Baseline characteristicsa

ALL patients

Matched-INDICATED

DrotAA

(n = 784)

NonDrotAA

(n = 18,138)

DrotAA

(n = 692)

NonDrotAA

(n = 1935)

Age (Mean)

58.4

60.4

59.0

59.1

SD

16.1

16.9

15.4

9.2

P valueb

0.001

 

0.69

 

Male (%)

59.7

59.9

60.1

61.2

P value

0.93

 

0.65

 

APACHE II (mean)

26.1

21.1

25.8

25.5

SD

8.2

7.7

7.9

4.7

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.02

 

SAPS II (mean)

58.1

47.8

59.1

58.5

SD

19.2

19.1

18.8

10.9

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.77

 

Origin of sepsis (%)

Nosocomial

8.4

4.7

7.2

12.3

Community acquired

38.6

14.3

39.7

34.7

Unknown

52.9

81.0

53.0

53.0

P value

0.003

 

< 0.0001

 

Anatomic site of primary infection (%)

Lung

51.5

23.4

52.9

46.8

Abdomen

12.2

6.9

13.2

12.7

CNS

1.3

0.6

0.9

0.7

Blood

3.4

2.0

3.0

3.5

Urinary tract

4.1

2.7

3.8

3.3

Unknown

22.1

60.2

21.1

29.0

Other

5.4

4.2

5.2

4.1

P value

0.0004

 

0.55

 

Use of vasopressors (%)

Yes

91.2

54.7

91.8

81.2

No

8.3

39.2

7.8

17.8

Unknown

0.5

6.1

0.4

1.0

P value

< 0.0001

 

< 0.0001

 

Mechanical ventilation (%)

Yes

76.3

72.3

75.7

76.4

No

6.4

19.5

6.2

5.2

Unknown

17.3

8.2

18.1

18.4

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.08

 

Number of organ systems with dysfunction (%)

0

1.4

9.9

0.0

0.0

1

2.2

23.8

0.1

0.8

2

20.7

30.8

21.0

22.0

3

33.0

19.4

35.1

34.0

4

24.9

11.3

26.3

29.4

5

13.6

4.1

13.9

11.7

6

4.2

0.7

3.6

2.2

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.82

 

Cardiovascular dysfunction (%)

Yes

96.0

66.9

98.7

98.3

No

2.4

30.2

1.0

1.0

Unknown

1.5

2.9

0.3

0.7

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.36

 

Pulmonary dysfunction (%)

Yes

92.6

69.5

95.4

95.3

No

5.1

18.8

3.9

3.4

Unknown

2.3

11.7

0.7

1.3

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.34

 

CNS dysfunction (%)

Yes

28.4

21.0

27.7

31.4

No

33.2

34.5

33.8

30.9

Unknown

38.4

44.5

38.4

37.7

P value

0.0003

 

0.01

 

Coagulation dysfunction (%)

Yes

31.4

14.0

31.8

25.0

No

65.4

68.7

66.3

72.6

Unknown

3.2

17.3

1.9

2.4

P value

< 0.0001

 

< 0.0001

 

Renal dysfunction (%)

Yes

63.3

29.4

65.6

61.7

No

33.9

54.1

32.4

36.6

Unknown

2.8

16.6

2.0

1.7

P value

< 0.0001

 

< 0.01

 

Hepatic dysfunction (%)

Yes

23.9

13.0

24.4

23.8

No

66.8

66.7

67.6

68.5

Unknown

9.3

20.3

7.9

7.7

P value

< 0.0001

 

0.71

 
  1. aSummary statistics for the NonDrotAA group were weighted to reflect the unequal numbers of DrotAA and NonDrotAA patients in each of the matched sets
  2. bDescriptive P values are from clustered regression analysis using linear regression (numeric variables) or binary logistic regression (categorical variables) comparing the proportion of patients in the most frequent category between DrotAA vs NonDrotAA, clustering on the matched sets and with weights based on the number of patients in DrotAA and NonDrotAA matched sets. Patients in the unknown categories were excluded from the tests. No adjustments were made to account for multiple inference