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Section Type: METHODS

Text: The days of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), time of the ventilatory support needed, the time for retention of tracheal intubation, the morning blood glucose level (6 am), the intake of nonprotein calories per day, the dosage of required insulin per day, therapeutic intervention scoring system-28 (TISS-28) score, human leukocyte antigen (locus) DR (HLA-DR), CD4 + / CD8 +, the mortality rate, acute renal failure (serum creatine > 221 micromol/L), bilirubinemia (total bilirubin > 34. 2 micromol/L), the number of patients who received red-cell transfusions, fever (temperature in mouth > 38. 5 centigrade) and the rate of hypoglycemia were determined and registered.