A prospective cohort study of 120 sepsis patients showed that lnc-MALAT1 accurately diagnosed sepsis (AUC 0.910) and predicted 28-day survival (AUC 0.886) better than the APACHE II score (AUC 0.868) and lactate levels (AUC 0.868) [74]. This evidence concerns the gene MALAT1 and Sepsis.