Environmental risk factors for community-acquired pneumonia hospitalization in older adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1036-1040

  Loeb, Mark ^a   Neupane, Binod ^a   Walter, Stephen D ^a   Hanning, Rhona ^b   Carusone, Soo Chan ^a   Lewis, David ^c   Krueger, Paul ^a,c   Simor, Andrew E ^d   Nicolle, Lindsay ^e   Marrie, Thomas J ^f  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nutrition; Pneumonia; Smoking

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PASSIVE SMOKING; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 66549098415     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02259.x     Document Type: Article

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