Pneumonia In The Elderly Clinical And Pathological Features

Objective Pneumonia is more frequent in the elderly and results in higher morbidity and mortality. To identify the risk factors and study bacteriology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly for prevention pneumonia in older patients.Methods A prospective case-control study which included all patients over 60 years of age admitted to our hospital with and without CAP was carried out over a period of Jan.2003-Jun.2004. They were classified the 2 groups that community-acquired pneumonia in elderly patients admitted to hospital were studied by a control subjects matched for sex, age and the date of admission admitted to other departments. The two groups were compared with regard to risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia using a questionnaire. recorded demographic data, type of domestic heating used in winter, average area to dwell, economics status, history of occupational dust exposure, history of tobacco smoke exposure, alcohol consumption, , exercises, activities of daily living (ADL), probability of aspiration , history of...