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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2014 Sep;42(9):2058–2068. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000418

Table 4.

Clinical outcomes by urine NNAL level

Smoking Status Stratified by Urine NNAL
Outcome Nonsmoker 0 pg/ml (N=143) Passive smoker >0, <47.3 pg/ml (N=101) Active smoker >=47.3 pg/ml (N=137) p-value
60-day mortality, n (%) 42 (29) 21 (21) 21 (15) a 0.02
Ventilator-free days, median (IQR) b 18 [0, 25] 21 [0, 24] 21 [13, 25] a 0.10
Organ failure-free days, median (IQR) b 5 [0, 21] 6 [0, 19] 13 [0, 23] a 0.03
 Cardiovascular failure free days, median (IQR) 23 [12, 27] 25 [16, 27] 25 [18, 27] 0.27
 Coagulation failure free days, median (IQR) 28 [20, 28] 28 [22, 28] 28 [26, 28] a 0.01
 Renal failure free days, median (IQR) 28 [9, 28] 28 [13, 28] 28 [21, 28] a 0.05
 Hepatic failure free days, median (IQR) 28 [18, 28] 28 [19, 28] 28 [27, 28] a 0.03

Definition of abbreviations: NNAL = 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol

a

Active smoker vs nonsmoker p<0.05

b

Ventilator-free and organ failure-free days are from time of randomization to day 28 of enrollment