INS and acute respiratory distress syndrome: In the training cohort, the presence of DAD at the OLB and diabetes mellitus requiring insulin, age, static compliance, plateau pressure, PEEP, PaO2/FiO2 rate, driving pressure, respiratory rate, temperature, number of quadrants involved in the chest X-ray, heart rate and platelet counts at the time of ARDS diagnosis, were different between survivors (n = 76) and non survivors (n = 117) at the time of hospital discharge (Table 3 and Table 7, and Table S5).