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