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SUBMITTER: Vanzant EL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4404112 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vanzant Erin L EL Hilton Rachael E RE Lopez Cecilia M CM Zhang Jianyi J Ungaro Ricardo F RF Gentile Lori F LF Szpila Benjamin E BE Maier Ronald V RV Cuschieri Joseph J Bihorac Azra A Leeuwenburgh Christiaan C Moore Frederick A FA Baker Henry V HV Moldawer Lyle L LL Brakenridge Scott C SC Efron Philip A PA
Critical care (London, England) 20150304
<h4>Introduction</h4>We wished to characterize the relationship of advanced age to clinical outcomes and to transcriptomic responses after severe blunt traumatic injury with hemorrhagic shock.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed epidemiological, cytokine, and transcriptomic analyses on a prospective, multi-center cohort of 1,928 severely injured patients.<h4>Results</h4>We found that there was no difference in injury severity between the aged (age ≥55, n = 533) and young (age <55, n = 1395) cohorts. How ...[more]