ALB and acute respiratory distress syndrome: Heart rate, respiratory rate, platelet, creatinine, leukocyte, aspartate transaminase (AST), hypertension and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients with high average serum albumin were lower than those in patients with low average albumin, while systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure, hemoglobin, diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) were higher than those in patients with low albumin (as shown in Table 1).