Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Elderly Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 649-651

  Kofteridis, Diamantis P ^a   Giourgouli, Giannoula ^a   Plataki, Marina N ^a   Andrianaki, Angeliki M ^a   Maraki, Sofia ^a   Papadakis, John A ^a   Zacharioudaki, Maria E ^a   Samonis, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PLEURA EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; VERY ELDERLY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; COMPLICATION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84961832133     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14011     Document Type: Letter

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