Chronic medical conditions and associations with incident sepsis.

<p>Total of 975 incident sepsis events among 30,239 participants in the REGARDS cohort. Estimated from Cox proportional hazards regression and adjusted for gender, age, race, education, income, and smoking status.</p>†<p>Adjusted for age, sex, race, education, income, geographic region, alcohol use, and smoking status.</p>*<p>Chronic lung disease was defined as individuals reporting use of pulmonary medications.