Association of COPD With Risk for Pulmonary Infections Requiring Hospitalization in HIV-Infected Veterans
Attia EF, McGinnis KA, Feemster LC, Akgün KM, Butt AA, Graber CJ, Fine MJ, Goetz MB, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Pisani MA, Tindle HA, Brown ST, Hoo G, Rimland D, Gibert CL, Huang L, Freiberg MS, Hough CL, Crothers K. Association of COPD With Risk for Pulmonary Infections Requiring Hospitalization in HIV-Infected Veterans. JAIDS Journal Of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 2015, 70: 280-288. PMID: 26181820, PMCID: PMC4607625, DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000000751.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCommunity-acquired pneumoniaPneumocystis jirovecii pneumoniaIndependent risk factorIncidence rate ratiosPulmonary infectionRisk factorsAssociation of COPDBurden of COPDVeterans Aging Cohort Study Virtual CohortRisk of CAPMultivariable Poisson regression modelsBaseline comorbid conditionsDifferent pulmonary infectionsInfections Requiring HospitalizationCD4 cell countHIV viral loadChronic lung diseaseObstructive pulmonary diseaseMultivariable Poisson regressionUnadjusted incidence rateNinth Revision codesPoisson regression modelsJirovecii pneumoniaPulmonary tuberculosis