A greater decline in serum total cholesterol and other lipid profiles during hospital stay is associated with higher in-hospital mortality in adult sepsis patients.
Greater lipid decline may signal higher sepsis mortality; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before guiding care.
In this study it was found that the additional decline of lipid profile was significantly associated with increased mortality rate of sepsis patients. Thus, the clinically termed 'the lipaemia of sepsis' is not true in all situations.
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