From the Department of Medicine (RDS, PEP, JMM), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT; the Department of Medicine (TRM, SJG, JTR, EC, JRC, TRW, MMW, TSH, KAS, MJN), Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; the Department of Epidemiology (NSW), University of Washington, Seattle, WA; St Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (JJC), Boise, ID; the Department of Surgery (ABN), Division of General Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; St Luke's Boise Medical Center (SRA), Boise, ID; the Department of Medicine (DKH), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; and Puget Sound Blood Center (TRW), Research Division, Seattle, WA.
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This research was supported by an American Thoracic Society/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Foundation Award, an American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Rhoads Research Foundation Award, and National Institutes of Health Grants 1P50HL073996, 8K12RR023265, and 5P20RR015557. Nordic Naturals also donated the fish oil used in this trial but had no input into study design, study conduct, data management, or publication.
The authors have not disclosed any potential conflicts of interest.
This research was performed at the University of Washington, University of Vermont, University of Toronto, and St Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, ID.
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