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Hospital mortality increased with age only with direct ARDS. Mortality in direct ARDS (blue line) rose with increasing age, whereas age had no association with mortality in indirect ARDS (red line). Data are adjusted for sex, weight, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, lung injury score, number of organ failures, and diabetes mellitus.
