SGK1 and acute respiratory distress syndrome: The results suggested that all 10 marker genes had a good predictive effect in terms of the diagnosis of ARDS, with an area under the curve greater than 0.65; SGK1 (AUC = 0.791) had the best diagnostic effect, followed by LST1 (AUC = 0.743), MSRB1 (AUC = 0.740) and DYSF (AUC = 0.721) (Fig. 6D–M).