Research Article
A Study of Community-Acquired Pneumonias in Elderly Individuals in Bijapur, India
Table 18
Predisposing factors seen in our study and another study conducted by Torres et al. is as follows.
| | Predisposing conditions | Our study | Torres et al. |
| | Smoking | 32 (74%) | 62 (62%) | | Alcoholism | 8 (6%) | 22 (22%) | | COPD | 24 (48%) | 30 (30%) | | Diabetes mellitus | 14 (24%) | 1 (17%) | | Congestive cardiac failure | 8 (16%) | 28 (28%) | | Neurologic diseases | 4 (8%) | 5 (5%) | | Renal diseases | 3 (6%) | 4 (4%) | | Chronic liver diseases | 2 (4%) | 4 (4%) | | Malignancy | 1 (2%) | 5 (5%) |
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