SDC1 and Sepsis: A study by Saragih et al. reported that the averagesyndecan-1 level in healthy children was 27.7ng/mL, with a level of > 41.42ng/mL(90th percentile) indicating marked glycocalyxdegradation.(25) This suggests that syndecan-1 was increased for allpediatric sepsis subjects enrolled in this study.