Study Aims and Endpoints
The primary aim of this study was to describe symptoms,
clinical characteristics, and in-hospital mortality in a large,
prospectively enrolled group of individuals with profound
hyponatremia.
Statistical Analysis
Discrete variables are expressed as frequencies and percentages,
continuous Gaussian variables as means with
standard deviations (SDs) and non-Gaussian variables as
medians with interquartile ranges (IQRs).
Analyses were performed using Excel 2011 version 14
(Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA) and GraphPad version 6
(Prism, La Jolla, CA)