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High mortality due to sepsis in Native Hawaiians and African Americans: The Multiethnic Cohort

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Sepsis is a severe systemic response to infection with a high mortality rate. A higher incidence has been reported for older people, in persons with a compromised immune system including cancer patients, and in ethnic minorities. We analyzed sepsis mortality and its predictors...

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Autores principales: Matter, Michelle L., Shvetsov, Yurii B., Dugay, Chase, Haiman, Christopher A., Le Marchand, Loic, Wilkens, Lynne R., Maskarinec, Gertraud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5448766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28558016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178374