Table 2 Frequencies of common chronic illnesses 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

COPD

40 (32.5%)

29 (46.0%)

11 (18.3%)

3.80 (1.67—8.60) 0.001

Asthma

8 (6.5%)

1 (1.6%)

7 (11.9%)

0.12 (0.01–0.99) 0.022 a

Heart disease

80 (64.5%)

37 (57.8%)

43 (71.7%)

0.54 (0.26–1.15) 0.107

Type 2 diabetes

26 (21.0%)

11 (17.2%)

15 (25.0%)

0.62 (0.26–1.49) 0.286

Immunosuppressive

4 (3.3%)

1 (1.6%)

3 (5.1%)

0.30 (0.03–2.98) 0.353

Malignancy

7 (5.6%)

3 (4.7%)

4 (6.7%)

0.69 (0.15–3.21) 0.711

Multimorbidity

52 (43.3%)

28 (45.2%)

24 (41.4%)

1.17 (0.57–2.41) 0.676

  1. Odds ratio using women as the reference category.
  2. Abbreviations: CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; CI, confidence interval; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  3. aFisher’s exact test.
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