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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jul 1;33(10):1690–1696. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01005.x

Table 4.

OR for elevated EVLW (indexed to PBW). Alcohol was the only independent predictor of whether an ARDS patient would have elevated EVLW.

Variable Odds Ratio LCI UCI
Age 1.00 0.97 1.03
Albumin 0.76 0.33 1.75
Alcohol 3.16 1.26 7.93
Enrollment weight 1.00 0.98 1.02
Height 0.91 0.98 0.97
Male Sex 0.54 0.16 1.75

Alcohol: positive history of alcohol abuse

Enroll wt: Actual Body weight at time of enrollment