Wilhelms SB, Walther SM, Sjöberg F, et al. - Researchers conducted a retrospective matched cohort study with the aim to appraise the causes of late death (≥ 1 year) among patients with sepsis compared with patients without sepsis. Comparison was performed of 8,760 patients with severe sepsis or septic shock (2001 consensus criteria), which were registered in the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (2008‐2013), with a 1:1 matched (gender, age, SAPS3 probability for death, ICU length of stay) control group consisting of non‐septic ICU patients. During 2008‐2014, late death was reported for 903 patients with sepsis vs 884 patients in the control group. Late death after ICU admission was most frequently observed among patients with and without sepsis in correlation with heart diseases and cancer. However, relative to non‐septic patients, patients with sepsis more commonly had infectious diseases as a cause of late death.