Risk of exacerbation following pneumonia in adults with heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent evidence demonstrates increased short-term risk of cardiac complications and respiratory failure among patients with heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respectively, concurrent with an episode of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We evaluated patients with pre-existing HF or COPD, beginning 30 days after CAP diagnosis, to determine if CAP had a prolonged impact on their underlying comorbidity.

Methods

A retrospective matched-cohort design using US healthcare claims was employed. In each month of accrual, patients with HF or COPD who developed CAP ("CAP patients") were matched (1:1, without replacement, on demographic and clinical profiles) to patients with HF or COPD who did not develop CAP ("comparison patients"). All pa

SUBMITTER: Bornheimer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5640217 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature