CRP and Sepsis: We identified similar estimates for the association between small HDL and sepsis incidence and outcomes in the unadjusted models, with slightly larger effect sizes and narrower confidence intervals (e.g. OR for sepsis incidence in Quartile 4 of small HDL particle count 0.78 (95% CI, 0.72–0.84, p = 1.8 × 10–11) in models unadjusted for CRP, and 0.80 (95% CI 0.74–0.86, p = 4.9 × 10–9) in adjusted models.