Impact of cancer on mortality rates in patients with sepsis: A meta-analysis and meta-regression of current studies

Table 2 Meta-regression analysis for the heterogeneity of mortality rates

Covariate	Coefficient	SE	95%CI	P value	Scatter plot
Mean age	0.001	< 0.001	-0.001 to 0.003	0.35	Supplementary Figure 1
Male gender	-0.011	0.033	-0.075 to 0.054	0.73	Supplementary Figure 2
Hypertension	0.024	0.013	-0.001 to 0.049	0.06	Supplementary Figure 3
Diabetes Mellitus	0.022	0.023	-0.024 to 0.068	0.35	Supplementary Figure 4
Pulmonary disease	0.035	0.017	0.002 to 0.068	0.03	Supplementary Figure 5
Renal disease	0.048	0.017	0.015 to 0.080	< 0.01	Supplementary Figure 6
Cardiac disease	0.035	0.020	-0.005 to 0.075	0.08	Supplementary Figure 7
Bacteremia	-0.004	0.004	-0.012 to 0.004	0.35	Supplementary Figure 8
Pulmonary origin	-0.008	0.010	-0.028 to 0.011	0.39	Supplementary Figure 9
Abdominal origin	-0.002	0.005	-0.012 to 0.009	0.76	Supplementary Figure 10
Urinary tract origin	0.013	0.005	0.003 to 0.022	0.01	Supplementary Figure 11
Cutaneous origin	-0.062	0.007	-0.076 to -0.048	< 0.01	Supplementary Figure 12

CI: Confidence interval.