Lower mortality rate in elderly patients with community-onset pneumonia on treatment with aspirin

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Falcone, Marco ^a   Russo, Alessandro ^a   Cangemi, Roberto ^a   Farcomeni, Alessio ^a   Calvieri, Camilla ^a   Barillà, Francesco ^a   Scarpellini, Maria Gabriella ^a   Bertazzoni, Giuliano ^a   Palange, Paolo ^a   Taliani, Gloria ^a   Venditti, Mario ^a   Violi, Francesco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Pneumonia; Septic shock; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; ITALY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REFERENCE VALUE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRENDS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPIRIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PNEUMONIA; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84926303032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001595     Document Type: Article

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