title: [Long-term survival of immunocompetent patients older than 60 years hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A reduction in long-term survival of adult patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), especially older people with múltiple comorbidities, has been reported.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the clinical variables associated to mortality at 72 months of adult patients older than 60 years hospitalized with CAP and compare their mortality with a control group matched for age, gender and place of admission.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective assessment of 465 immunocompetent patients aged 61 to 101 years, hospitalized for CAP in a teaching hospital. Hospital and 30 day mortality was obtained from medical records. Seventy two months survival of the 424 patients who were discharged olive, was compared with a group of 851 patients without pneumonia paired for gender and age. Mortality at 72 months was obtained from death certificates.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty seven percent of patients had comorbidity. The median hospital length of stay was 10 days, 8.8% died in the hospital, 29.7% at one year follow-up and 61.9%o at 6 years. The actuarial survival at six years was similar in the cohort of adults hospitalized with CAP and the control group matched for age, gender and site of care. In a multivariate analysis, the clinical variables associated with increased risk of dying during long-term follow-up were older age, chronic cardiovascular and neurological diseases, malignancy, absence of fever, low C-reactive protein at hospital admission and high-risk parameters of the Fine índex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Advanced age, some specific comorbidities, poor systemic inflammatory response at admission and high risk parameters of the Fine Index were associated to increased risk of dying on long-term follow-up among older adults hospitalized for CAP.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, fsaldias@med.puc.cl.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Saldías P
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, fsaldias@med.puc.cl.
authors.forename: Rolando
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maturana O
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, fsaldias@med.puc.cl.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Román O
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, fsaldias@med.puc.cl.
authors.forename: Orlando
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Díaz P
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000401:mortality*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis