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Interleukin-10 haplotype associated with increased mortality in critically ill patients with sepsis from pneumonia but not in patients with extrapulmonary sepsis.
Chest - 1 Sept 2005
Wattanathum Anan, Manocha Sanjay, Groshaus Horacio, Russell James A, Walley Keith R
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STUDY OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that haplotypes of the interleukin (IL)-10 gene are associated with clinical outcomes, comparing critically ill patients with sepsis from pneumonia vs those with extrapulmonary sepsis. DESIGN: Genetic association study. SETTING: Medical/surgical ICUs in a tertiary-care, university-affiliated teaching hospital. PATIENTS: Of 550 white patients with sepsis, 158 had pneumonia...
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