Table 2.

Outcomes of the patients with ARDS across tertile of the baseline NLR.

Variables	All patients	NLR			P-value
		<7.5	≥7.5, <14.8	≥14.8
n	1,164	388	388	388
Time in ICU (days)	15.53 ± 13.13	15.13 ± 12.20	15.81 ± 12.80	15.63 ± 14.33	0.757
Time in hospital (days)	22.34 ± 16.68	22.56 ± 17.67	22.25 ± 14.94	22.21 ± 17.34	0.950
Days free of MV at day 30	15.37 ± 11.07	16.39 ± 10.62	16.54 ± 10.69	13.19 ± 11.57	<0.001
In-hospital mortality	336 (28.87%)	91 (23.45%)	103 (26.55%)	142 (36.60%)	<0.001
30-day mortality	305 (26.20%)	82 (21.13%)	91 (23.45%)	132 (34.02%)	<0.001

Data were mean ± SD, n (%). p-values comparing groups were from Student's t-test for continuous data and chi-squared test for categorical variables.