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Cure Research for Pneumonia

Treatments for Pneumonia

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Medical Research Breakthroughs and Pneumonia

Culprits for heart failure found out: Clinicians based at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and other research centres and clinics throughout the US have found out that pneumonia, irregular heart beats, and obstructed blood flow to the heart are the three main factors precipitating two out of three patients being admitted to hospital in the US for heart failure. Thus showing that patients had additional health problems when admitted to hospital for heart failure and these factors contributed to the decision to admit, and affected length of stay, whether they were re-admitted, and death rates, both in hospital and after discharge. Understanding the factors that can exacerbate heart failure and lead to hospitalizations can help improve management of heart failure. For this study data was used from Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure, involving over 48,000 heart failure patients recruited between March 2003 and December 2004 at 259 hospitals across the US. The researchers also followed a subgroup of over 5,500 patients for 60 to 90 days after they left hospital to collect post-admission outcomes such as death and re-admission rates. The results showed that, 61.3 per cent of the overall patient cohort had 1 or more precipitating factors of which the most frequent precipitating factors were: pneumonia/respiratory process (15.3 per cent of patients), ischemia (14.7 per cent), arrhythmia (13.5 per cent), and uncontrolled high blood pressure (10.7 per cent). In-hospital deaths were lower in the proportion of patients who did not have these factors and higher in-hospital death rates were independently linked to pneumonia (60 per cent higher risk), worsening kidney function (48 per cent), and ischemia (20 per cent). Uncontrolled high blood pressure, on the other hand, was linked to a 26 per cent lower in-hospital death risk and a 29 per cent lower post-discharge death and re-hospitalization risk.

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Pneumonia Treatment: Book Excerpts

Clinical Trials for Pneumonia

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