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The mortality risk factor of community acquired pneumonia patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a retrospective cohort study.

Ruo-Xuan DaiQing-Hua KongBei MaoWen XuRu-Jia TaoXiao-Ru WangQing-Yao KongJin-Fu Xu
Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2018)
COPD patients hospitalized with CAP had higher rate of need for NIMV, need for ICU admission and severity scores than those without COPD. Aspiration, D-dimer > 2.0 μg/mL, comorbid with coronary heart disease, need for NIMV and CURB-65 ≥ 3 were mortality risk factors in CAP patients comorbid with COPD.
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