Supplemental Table 1
Characteristics of the cohort with sepsis stratified by nutrition status (n=1,184)
Malnutrition Absent
Nonspecific Malnutrition
Protein-Energy Malnutrition
P-value
Explicit Sepsis-no. 253 746 185
Pneumonia-no.(%) 139 (55.0) 365 (48.9) 97 (52.4) 0.23
Urinary Tract Infection-no.(%) 46 (18.2) 135 (18.1) 24 (13.0) 0.24
Cellulitis-no.(%) 30 (11.9) 74 (9.9) 13 (7.0) 0.25
Peritonitis-no.(%) 12 (4.7) 62 (8.3) 7 (3.8) 0.03
Device Infection-no.(%) 13 (5.1) 52 (7.0) 13 (7.0) 0.58 Colitis-no.(%) 10 (4.0) 40 (5.4) 14 (7.6) 0.25
Supplemental Table 2
Characteristics of Propensity Score Matched patients (n= 4,104)
No Malnutrition Malnutrition P-value
N 2052 2052
Age-mean(SD) 63.6 (16.7) 62.9 (16.4) 0.17**
Male Gender-no.(%) 1181 (57.6) 1196 (58.3) 0.64
Non White Race-no.(%) 420 (20.5) 470 (22.9) 0.06
Surgical Patient Type-no.(%) 1066 (52.0) 1051 (51.2) 0.64
Explicit Sepsis-no.(%) 253 (12.3) 253 (12.3) 1.00
Vasopressores/Inotropes-no.(%) 936 (45.6) 938 (45.7) 0.95
Metastatic Disease-no.(%) 815 (39.7) 812 (39.6) 0.92
Deyo-Charlson Index-no.(%) 0.63
0-3 1721 (83.9) 1698 (82.8)
4-6 250 (12.2) 266 (13.0)
≥ 7 81 (4) 88 (4)
Acute organ failure-no.(%) 0.42
0 287 (14.0) 323 (15.7)
1 706 (34.4) 685 (33.4)
2 592 (28.9) 560 (27.3)
3 277 (13.5) 295 (14.38)
≥ 4 190 (9) 189 (9)
Nonspecific Malnutrition-no.(%) 0 (0) 1705 (83.09) <0.001
Protein-Energy Malnutrition-no.(%) 0 (0) 347 (16.91) <0.001
30-day Mortality-no.(%) 305 (14.9) 356 (17.4) 0.030
90-day Mortality-no.(%) 391 (19.1) 529 (25.8) <0.001
Note: P values determined by chi-square unless designated by (*) then P value determined by ANOVA.**
