Clinical significance of hypoalbuminemia in outcome of patients with scrub typhus

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Table 4 The Comparison of ST, AT interval, APACHE II score, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Septic Shock, and Mortality of the Patients*

	Group I	Group II	P ^†
ST interval, mean ± SD	6.84 ± 4.14	7.44 ± 4.12	0.406
AT interval, mean ± SD	0.98 ± 1.89	0.87 ± 2.34	0.487
APACHE II Score, mean ± SD	11.37 ± 5.1	6.94 ± 4.2	<0.001
Intensive Care Unit Admission	10 (17.5%)	13 (6.9%)	0.162
Septic Shock	11 (19.3%)	15 (7.9%)	0.134
Mortality	3 (5.3%)	6 (3.2%)	0.796

* ST interval = from the day when clinical symptoms began and to the day when appropriate treatment with antibiotics began; AT interval = from the day of admission to the day when appropriate treatment started.
^† Adjusted for age; APACHE II, Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation; SD, standard deviation

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