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. 2014 Jun 26;24:14017. doi: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.17

Table 1. General characteristics of recorded CAP patients.

All patients (n=124) Men (n=64) Women (n=60) Odds ratio (95% CI) P value
Agea (years) 74 (50–95; 18) 73 (50–95;17) 75 (50–91; 20) 1.01 (0.97–1.04) 0.830
BMIa (kg/m2) 28 (17–48; 5) 27 (18–42; 4) 39 (17–48; 9) 0.91 (0.85–0.98) 0.014
Obese (BMI>30 kg/m2) 38 (31.9%) 15 (24.2%) 23 (40.4%) 0.47 (0.21–1.04) 0.059
Smoking <0.0001
 0 pack-years 60 (55.0%) 16 (29.6%) 44 (80.0%) 0.11 (0.04–0.25)
 1–39 pack-years 16 (14.7%) 12 (22.2%) 4 (7.3%) 3.64 (1.09–12.13)
 ⩾40 pack-years 33 (30.3%) 26 (48.1%) 7 (12.7%) 6.37 (2.45–16.56)
Alcohol
 Current/former users 32 (26.2%) 26 (41.9%) 6 (10.0%) 6.50 (2.43–17.37) <0.0001
Vaccinated against influenza 75 (61.5%) 37 (59.7%) 38 (63.3%) 0.68 (0.41–1.78) 0.678
Vaccinated against pneumococcus 43 (35.2%) 24 (38.7%) 19 (31.7%) 1.32 (0.62–2.82) 0.453
Education level
 None/primary 105 (87.5%) 54 (88.5%) 51 (86.4%) 0.83 (0.28–2.44) 0.730
Marital status 1.34 (0.58–3.07) 0.491
 Married 89 (74.8%) 48 (77.4%) 41 (71.9%)
 Single/divorced/widowed 30 (25.2%) 14 (22.6%) 16 (28.1%)
No. of housematesa 2 (0–6; 1) 2 (0–6; 2) 2 (0–5; 1) 1.03 (0.77–1.37) 0.721

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; CI, confidence interval.

a

Continuous variables are presented as median (min—max; interquartile range).