Research Article
A Study of Community-Acquired Pneumonias in Elderly Individuals in Bijapur, India
Table 2
Predisposing conditions.
| Predisposing conditions | No. of patients | Percentage |
| Smoking | 32 | 74% | Alcoholism | 8 | 6% | COPD | 24 | 48% | Diabetes mellitus | 14 | 24% | Congestive cardiac failure | 8 | 16% | Neurologic diseases | 4 | 8% | Renal diseases | 3 | 6% | Chronic liver diseases | 2 | 4% | Malignancy | 1 | 2% |
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