Among 1,153 patients from 15 studies, significant risk factors for mortality included older age (HR = 1.04, 95%CI: 1.03, 1.05), smoking (HR = 1.62, 95%CI: 1.06, 2.47), fever (HR = 2.56, 95%CI: 1.66, 3.95), elevated C-reactive protein (CRP) (HR = 1.02, 95%CI: 1.01, 1.02), rapidly progressive ILD (RP-ILD) (HR = 4.02, 95%CI: 1.89, 8.55), high white blood cell count (WBC) (HR = 1.11, 95%CI: 1.02, 1.21), Krebs von den Lungen-6 (KL-6) (HR = 1.11, 95%CI: 1.06, 1.16), ferritin (≥800 ng/mL) (HR = 6.17, 95%CI: 2.51, 15.20), and lymphocyte count (<1.1×109/L) (HR = 4.88, 95%CI: 1.80, 13.20). This evidence concerns the gene MUC1 and interstitial lung disease.