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Table 1 The demographic and perinatal characteristics, and laboratory findings of the subjects

From: Discrimination of serum metabolomics profiles in infants with sepsis, based on liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer

Descriptive variable

Sepsis (n = 30)

Control (n = 30)

P

Male sex (%)

16 (53.33)

18 (60.00)

0.80

Cesarean (%)

14 (46.67)

12 (40.00)

0.60

Age of blood collection [days]

20.00 [6.00]

23.50 [8.25]

0.95

Gestational age [weeks]

39.00 [36.57]

39.00 [38.29]

0.95

Birth weight (kg)

3.41 (0.67)

3.33 (0.41)

0.61

Weight1 (kg)

4.22 (1.10)

3.98 (0.78)

0.33

Breastfed (%)

7 (23.33)

11 (36.67)

0.40

PROM ≥ 18 h (%)

1 (3.33)

0 (0)

1.00

Mother with GDM (%)

1 (3.33)

0 (0)

1.00

WBC [109/L]

12.62 [9.03]

10.27 [8.25]

0.04

Percentage of neutrophils (%)

57.58 (19.89)

40.11 (15.76)

 < 0.001

CRP [mg/L]

23.5 [0.71]

0.71 [0.71]

 < 0.001

PCT [ng/mL]

1.39 [0.34]

0.10 [0.08]

 < 0.001

  1. Normally distributed numerical data are reported as mean (standard deviation), whereas non-normally distributed data are reported as median [interquartile range] and categorical data are reported as number of cases (percentage) relative to the reference group
  2. 1Weight of the patients when admission