Table 5.

Baseline characteristics of patients who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (n = 738)

	Received Statin (n = 75)	Did Not Receive (n = 663)	p
Age (mean ± SD)	66.3 (±12.6)	56.4 (±18.5)	<.01
APACHE III score (mean ± SD)	78.6 (±22.1)	76.1 (±24.0)	.29
Female gender	38 (30%)	228 (37%)	.13
Caucasian race	114 (90%)	557 (91%)	.84
Pneumonia	90 (71%)	438 (72%)	.97
Sepsis w/o shock	28 (22%)	149 (24%)	.61
Septic shock	83 (66%)	390 (64%)	.65
Corticosteroid use	9 (7%)	58 (9%)	.40
Diabetes history	49 (39%)	104 (17%)	<.01
BMI	28.8 (± 8.2)	28.6 (± 8.9)	.80
Obese (BMI >30)	37 (29%)	134 (22%)	.07
Morbidly obese (BMI >40)	7 (6%)	50 (8%)	.32
Cirrhossis	1 (1%)	43 (7%)	<.01
Hepatic failure	4 (3%)	24 (4%)	.66
Ethanol abuse	9 (7%)	110 (18%)	<.01

APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; BMI, body mass index.

Values represented as mean (± SD) for continuous variables and N (%) for categorical variables.