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The impact of benzodiazepines on occurrence of pneumonia and mortality from pneumonia: a nested case-control and survival analysis in a population-based cohort
  1. Usman Iqbal1,
  2. Shabbir Syed-Abdul1,2,
  3. Phung Anh Nguyen1,2,
  4. Wen-Shan Jian3,
  5. Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li1
  1. 1 College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. 2 Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 3 School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li, College of Medicine Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Wan Fang Hospital, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, Xinyi District, Taipei city 11031, Taiwan; jack{at}tmu.edu.tw

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203211

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    The use of benzodiazepines is not associated with community-acquired pneumonia

    We read with interest the recent study done by Obiora et al 1 about the incidence and mortality with pneumonia for benzodiazepine users verses non-benzodiazepine users. We were interested to see whether these results would be generalisable to the Taiwanese population, therefore, we used the National Health Insurance Database of 22 million (2002) population in order to investigate the association of benzodiazepines and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We selected window size …

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      Thorax 2013; 68 592-593 Published Online First: 06 Feb 2013. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203233