Early lactate and glucose kinetics following return to spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Table 1 Lactate and glucose variables after OHCA

	Lactate		Glucose		Between-group difference		P-value
	Mean	95% CI	Mean	95% CI	Mean	95% CI	P-value
Initial value (mmol/L)	12.2	11.6–12.7	18.8	18.0–19.6	–	–
Measurements per patient within 8 h	5.4	5.1–5.8	6.6	6.3–6.9	1.14	0.7–1.6	< 0.001
Absolute decrease over 8 h (mmol/L)	9.0	8.0–10.0	10.0	9.1–10.9	–	–	–
Relative decrease over 8 h (%)	72.6	68.0–77.2	52.1	48.8–56.4	20.5	15.7–25.3	< 0.001
Time to reach 50% of the initial value (hours)^a	1.5	0.2–3.6	5.6	5.4–5.7	4.5	2.8–6.0	< 0.001

Lactate and glucose parameters for the whole sample. Lactate decreases faster compared to glucose in the early phase after OHCA. ^a Basic 95% confidence interval obtained after bootstrapping the mixed-effect model for a thousand times

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