BMC pharmacology & toxicology
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BMC Pharmacol Toxicol · May 2021
Association between phosphate disturbances and mortality among critically ill patients with sepsis or septic shock.
The aim of this study is to examine the association of hypophosphatemia and hyperphosphatemia on the first day of ICU admission with mortality in septic critically ill patients. ⋯ Hyperphosphatemia and not hypophosphatemia on the first ICU admission day was associated with an increase in the ICU and hospital mortality in septic critically ill patients.