IL10 and diabetes mellitus: Non-surviving patients also showed a higher incidence of diabetes mellitus (P = 0.02), higher lactatemia (P < 0.001), higher SOFA (P < 0.001) and APACHE-II (P < 0.001) scores, and lower platelet count (P = 0.002) and IL-10 (P < 0.001) than surviving patients (Table 2).