In addition, patients with DCI exhibited consistently higher MD MIF levels during the first 12 days after hemorrhage, although a significant difference was only observed at the start of the critical phase (days 5–8), when MD MIF levels amounted to 5.7 [3.9–16.1] ng/ml in patients with DCI compared to 0.2 [0.1–0.3] ng/ml in patients without DCI (p = 0.007, Supplementary Figure 2D). The gene discussed is MIF; the disease is hemorrhage.