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Table 3 Baseline characteristics of patients with isolated pulmonary Candida spp. colonization without pre-existing pneumonia (cohort 2)

From: Antifungal therapy in patients with pulmonary Candida spp. colonization may have no beneficial effects

 

Antifungal therapy (n = 44)

No antifungal therapy (n = 131)

p value

Age (years)

70 (59; 76)

71 (56; 79)

0.57

Sex male, n (%)

38 (86.4)

94 (71.8)

0.07

Cancer, n (%)

5 (11.4)

24 (18.3)

0.35

Permanent pacemaker, n (%)

8 (18.2)

12 (9.1)

0.17

SAPS II

48 (37; 55)

37 (26; 47)

<0.001

SOFA score

7 (4; 10)

4 (2; 8)

0.003

  1. Data are presented as median (25 %; 75 % quartile)
  2. SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment