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Studying the causes of death within 90 days of presentation in 2287 patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), Mortensen et al¹ found that almost half of the deaths (98 of 208) were attributable to pneumonia-unrelated causes. To the knowledge of Mortensen et al, no previous study has focused on different causes of death in patients with CAP. However, there is a Swedish study by Hedlund et al² that should be mentioned in this context. Performing a follow-up at 31 months after hospitalization for CAP, these investigators found that 51 (21%) of 241 patients had died since discharge compared with 26 (11%) in an average Swedish population of equal size and age distribution during the same period (relative risk of death, 2.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.4-3.2). The cause of death was considered pneumonia related in 13 (25%) of the 51 deaths in the pneumonia cohort. Among the pneumonia-unrelated causes of death, vascular . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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