Is initial serum lactate level associated with inpatient mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia?
The initial serum lactate level is independently associated with mortality in hospitalized patients with CAP. However, laboratory variables of PSI or others were not, except CRP and albumin.
These findings support a role for hypoxia and oestrogen induced VEGF-D in human breast cancer and also suggest that tamoxifen and related oestrogen antagonists may exert some of their antitumour effects through the abrogation of VEGF-D induced function.