Serum macrophage migration inhibitory factor reflects adrenal function in the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis of septic patients: an observational study

Table 2 Correlations between serum macrophage migration inhibitory factor and other clinical and laboratory parameters

	rs	Pvalue
APACHE II	0.144	0.371
SOFA score	0.414	0.007
JAAM DIC score	0.267	0.092
Albumin	-0.290	0.860
Prothrombin time ratio	0.355	0.024
Baseline cortisol	0.212	0.182
Baseline cortisol/albumin ratio	0.237	0.135
Delta max cortisol	-0.490	0.001
Delta max cortisol/albumin ratio	-0.501	0.001

rs: Spearman's correlation coefficient; APACHE II: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II; SOFA score: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score; JAAM DIC score: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation score established by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine; Prothrombin time ratio: the ratio of the actual prothrombin time vs the normal control prothrombin time; Delta max cortisol: maximum increment in the cortisol concentration caused by the adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation test.

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