To the Editor,Sepsis presents a threat to critically ill patients.[1]Hence,identifying causal risk factors for sepsis is essential to mitigate its incidence and associated outcomes.Circulating eosinophil count is comm...To the Editor,Sepsis presents a threat to critically ill patients.[1]Hence,identifying causal risk factors for sepsis is essential to mitigate its incidence and associated outcomes.Circulating eosinophil count is commonly used in clinical practice.Abnormal eosinophil levels have been inconsistently linked to sepsis risk and various clinical outcomes.Observational studies of intensive care unit(ICU)patients identified eosinopenia as a reliable diagnostic indicator of sepsis.[2–5]However,other observational studies found no statistically significant difference in eosinophil counts between sepsis and noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome.展开更多
基金This research was funded by the Top Young Talents Project of the“Special Support Program for High-Level Talents”in Shaanxi,China,and the Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials Fund of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University,China(grant number Z011).
文摘To the Editor,Sepsis presents a threat to critically ill patients.[1]Hence,identifying causal risk factors for sepsis is essential to mitigate its incidence and associated outcomes.Circulating eosinophil count is commonly used in clinical practice.Abnormal eosinophil levels have been inconsistently linked to sepsis risk and various clinical outcomes.Observational studies of intensive care unit(ICU)patients identified eosinopenia as a reliable diagnostic indicator of sepsis.[2–5]However,other observational studies found no statistically significant difference in eosinophil counts between sepsis and noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
