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The impact of prior outpatient ACE inhibitor use on 30-day mortality for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may have beneficial effects for patients at risk for some types of infections. We examined the effect of prior outpatient use of ACE inhibitors on mortality for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumo...

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Autores principales: Mortensen, Eric M, Restrepo, Marcos I, Anzueto, Antonio, Pugh, Jacqueline
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1236938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16159398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-5-12