Our results showed that correlates promoting the development of infectious complications in patients with sepsis-associated ARDS included SOFA score, oxygenation index, the application of vasoactive drugs, NLR, IL-4, and IL-17A, in addition to CD16brightCD62Ldim neutrophils and IL-8 (Figure 2 and Supplementary Table S5). The gene discussed is IL4; the disease is acute respiratory distress syndrome.