Table 5.

Correlation between the moderately severe acute pancreatitis and severe acute pancreatitis groups inflammation indicators and acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome

Variable	Time	MSAP group	SAP group	P value
IL-6	On admission	98.36 ± 106.36	143.74 ± 174.40	0.455
PCT	On admission	0.46 ± 0.74	0.67 ± 1.01	0.150
	72 h	0.39 ± 0.49	0.66 ± 0.83
	96 h	0.19 ± 0.12	0.51 ± 0.64

MSAP: Moderately severe acute pancreatitis; SAP: Severe acute pancreatitis; IL: Interleukin; PCT: Procalcitonin.