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SUBMITTER: Vieira da Silva Pellegrina D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4457834 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vieira da Silva Pellegrina Diogo D Severino Patricia P Vieira Barbeiro Hermes H Maziero Andreghetto Flávia F Tadeu Velasco Irineu I Possolo de Souza Heraldo H Machado Marcel Cerqueira César MC Reis Eduardo Moraes EM Pinheiro da Silva Fabiano F
PloS one 20150605 6
Sepsis is one of the highest causes of mortality in hospitalized people and a common complication in both surgical and clinical patients admitted to hospital for non-infectious reasons. Sepsis is especially common in older people and its incidence is likely to increase substantially as a population ages. Despite its increased prevalence and mortality in older people, immune responses in the elderly during septic shock appear similar to that in younger patients. The purpose of this study was to c ...[more]