After the spread of the new coronavirus, the number of patients who were urgently hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia had decreased significantly. It became clear in the investigation of.
京都大学によると、今中教授らは感染症分野の医療データベースを使い、2019年8月1日から2020年7月末までの市中肺炎による緊急入院者数、その他の疾患による緊急入院者数を、2018年8月1日から2019年7月末までの数値と比較した。
As a result, the number of emergency hospitalizations due to other diseases decreased only temporarily in March-July 2020, when the infection of the new corona was spreading, while the number of emergency hospitalizations due to community-acquired pneumonia was earlier. It was 3% less than the year.When classified by the severity of pneumonia at admission, the decrease in mildly ill patients was particularly noticeable.
Professor Imanaka et al. Suspect that the decrease in community-acquired pneumonia may be due to the decrease in the incidence of pneumonia due to behavioral changes such as refraining from seeing patients with mild illness and refraining from going out.
Community-acquired pneumonia is defined as a lower respiratory tract infection that develops outside the hospital.It often occurs in the elderly and causes hospitalization and death.In Japan, pneumonia is the fifth leading cause of death in 2019, and it is said that the onset is caused by viral infections as well as comorbidities such as smoking and chronic respiratory diseases.
Overseas, it has been reported that the number of emergency hospitalized patients due to community-acquired pneumonia has decreased after the spread of the new corona infection, but it has not been verified what severity of community-acquired pneumonia was affected.
