Risk of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients: Use of an Artificial Neural Network Model

Table 3

Multivariate analysis of factors related to ARDS in CAP patients.

Variables	B	S.E	Wald	Sig	Exp (B)	95% CI for exp (B)
Source of admission	3.948	0.246	258.222	≤0.001	51.822	32.018–83.875
CRP	0.004	0.002	5.083	0.024	1.004	1.000–1.007
PCT	0.045	0.012	14.705	≤0.001	1.046	1.022–1.070
ESR	0.008	0.003	4.666	0.031	1.008	1.001–1.014
NEUT	−0.009	0.003	11.853	0.001	0.991	0.986–0.996
ALB	−0.047	0.019	6.144	0.013	0.954	0.920–0.990
LDH	0.003	0.001	21.621	≤0.001	1.003	1.002–1.004
Constant	−0.2743	0.782	12.292	≤0.001	0.064

Note. ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; CRP, c-reactive protein; PCT, procalcitonin; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; NEUT, neutrophil count; EO, eosinophil count; ALB, albumin; and LDH, lactate dehydrogenase.