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Comorbid pulmonary disease and risk of community-acquired pneumonia in COPD patients

S-H Lin, B-C. Ji, Y-M. Shih, C-H Chen, P-C Chan, Yu‐Jun Chang, Yi-Chan Lin, Ching‐Hsiung Lin

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2013 · 25 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

For COPD patients: 1) increased age, low BMI, lung cancer and bronchiectasis may increase the risk of CAP, and 2) without respiratory comorbid disease, ICS use increases the risk of CAP.