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Pneumococcal pneumonia and the risk of stroke: a population-based follow-up study
Li-Fu Chen1, Hsin-Pai Chen, Yung-Sung Huang
1Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan.
Background:
To investigate the risk of developing stroke in patients hospitalized following a diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia.
Methods:
The study cohorts comprised of patients hospitalized with a principal diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia (n = 745), with a random sampling of control individuals in 2004 (n = 1490). The Cox proportional hazard model was used to compare the stroke-free survival rate between the cohorts after adjusting for possible confounding and risk factors for a two-year follow up. Instrumental variable analysis (IVA) was used to address potential biases associated with measured and unmeasured confounding variables.
Results:
Of the 153 patients with stroke, 80 (10.7%) were from the pneumococcal pneumonia cohort, and 73 (4.9%) were from the control group. The risk of stroke was 3.65 times higher (95% confidence interval, 2.25-5.90; P<0.001) in patients with pneumococcal pneumonia after adjusting for patient characteristics, co-morbidities, geographic region, urbanization level of residence, and socioeconomic status during the first year. IVA showed an additional 14% risk of stroke for pneumococcal pneumonia patients (odds ratio = 1.14; 95% CI, 1.02-1.26, P = 0.032).
Conclusions:
Patients with pneumococcal pneumonia carry an increased risk for stroke than the general population. Further studies are warranted for developing better diagnostic and follow-up strategies for patients with increased risk.
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