Table 1 General characteristics of recorded CAP patients

From: Studying the burden of community-acquired pneumonia in adults aged ⩾50 years in primary health care: an observational study in rural Crete, Greece

 

All patients (n=124)

Men (n=64)

Women (n=60)

Odds ratio (95% CI) P value

Age a (years)

74 (50–95; 18)

73 (50–95;17)

75 (50–91; 20)

1.01 (0.97–1.04) 0.830

BMI a (kg/m2)

28 (17–48; 5)

27 (18–42; 4)

39 (17–48; 9)

0.91 (0.85–0.98) 0.014

Obese (BMI>30 kg/m2)

38 (31.9%)

15 (24.2%)

23 (40.4%)

0.47 (0.21–1.04) 0.059

Smoking

   

<0.0001

 0 pack-years

60 (55.0%)

16 (29.6%)

44 (80.0%)

0.11 (0.04–0.25)

 1–39 pack-years

16 (14.7%)

12 (22.2%)

4 (7.3%)

3.64 (1.09–12.13)

 ⩾40 pack-years

33 (30.3%)

26 (48.1%)

7 (12.7%)

6.37 (2.45–16.56)

Alcohol

    

 Current/former users

32 (26.2%)

26 (41.9%)

6 (10.0%)

6.50 (2.43–17.37) <0.0001

Vaccinated against influenza

75 (61.5%)

37 (59.7%)

38 (63.3%)

0.68 (0.41–1.78) 0.678

Vaccinated against pneumococcus

43 (35.2%)

24 (38.7%)

19 (31.7%)

1.32 (0.62–2.82) 0.453

Education level

    

 None/primary

105 (87.5%)

54 (88.5%)

51 (86.4%)

0.83 (0.28–2.44) 0.730

Marital status

   

1.34 (0.58–3.07) 0.491

 Married

89 (74.8%)

48 (77.4%)

41 (71.9%)

 

 Single/divorced/widowed

30 (25.2%)

14 (22.6%)

16 (28.1%)

 

No. of housemates a

2 (0–6; 1)

2 (0–6; 2)

2 (0–5; 1)

1.03 (0.77–1.37) 0.721

  1. Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; CI, confidence interval.
  2. aContinuous variables are presented as median (min—max; interquartile range).
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