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Editor, Senior Moderator
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2010 Jun 1. [Epub ahead of print]
Risk factors for severe complications of the novel influenza A(H1N1): analysis of patients hospitalized in Italy.
Bassetti M, Parisini A, Calzi A, Maria Bobbio Pallavicini F, Cassola G, Artioli S, Anselmo M, Pagano G, Rezza G, Viscoli C; for the Ligurian H1N1 Collaborative Group.
Infectious Diseases Division, San Martino Hospital and University of Genoa School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy.
Abstract
Eighty-one patients affected by the novel influenza A(H1N1), hospitalized in North-western Italy, were studied. The median age was 32 years (range, 1- 81). Fifty-six (69%) had an underlying medical condition, including lung disorders (asthma or COPD) in 34%, and obesity in 25%. Half of them had pneumonia, 12% were admitted to ICU, and 3% died. Antiviral treatment was initiated in 75% of patients started within 48 hours. Older age and lung and neurocognitive disorders were associated with severe disease and death.
PMID: 20518797 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20518797
Risk factors for severe complications of the novel influenza A(H1N1): analysis of patients hospitalized in Italy.
Bassetti M, Parisini A, Calzi A, Maria Bobbio Pallavicini F, Cassola G, Artioli S, Anselmo M, Pagano G, Rezza G, Viscoli C; for the Ligurian H1N1 Collaborative Group.
Infectious Diseases Division, San Martino Hospital and University of Genoa School of Medicine, Genoa, Italy.
Abstract
Eighty-one patients affected by the novel influenza A(H1N1), hospitalized in North-western Italy, were studied. The median age was 32 years (range, 1- 81). Fifty-six (69%) had an underlying medical condition, including lung disorders (asthma or COPD) in 34%, and obesity in 25%. Half of them had pneumonia, 12% were admitted to ICU, and 3% died. Antiviral treatment was initiated in 75% of patients started within 48 hours. Older age and lung and neurocognitive disorders were associated with severe disease and death.
PMID: 20518797 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20518797