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Area of Science:

  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Immunology
  • Translational Research

Background:

  • Acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF) patient classification into hyperinflammatory and hypoinflammatory subphenotypes aids trial enrollment.
  • Current binary classification assumes homogeneity within these groups, potentially limiting trial precision.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if continuous subphenotype probabilities reveal clinically meaningful heterogeneity in AHRF patients.
  • To assess the prognostic value of continuous subphenotype probabilities beyond binary classification.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 575 critically ill adults with AHRF, validated in 1134 patients from external cohorts.
  • Calculation of continuous subphenotype probabilities using a biomarker model (IL-6, sTNFR-1, bicarbonate).
  • Primary outcome: 90-day mortality, analyzed using logistic regression and restricted cubic splines.

Main Results:

  • Hyperinflammatory AHRF patients showed prognostic homogeneity (55% mortality).
  • Hypoinflammatory AHRF patients exhibited significant heterogeneity, with 90-day mortality increasing from 19% to 40% across probability tertiles (P < 0.001).
  • Continuous probabilities strongly predicted mortality, especially below the 0.5 threshold, with rising trajectories indicating worse outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • Binary classification masks substantial prognostic heterogeneity within hypoinflammatory AHRF patients.
  • Continuous probability-based stratification can identify high-risk patients missed by binary methods.
  • This approach may refine enrollment strategies for AHRF subphenotype-guided trials.