Respiratory virus is a real pathogen in immunocompetent community-acquired pneumonia: comparing to influenza like illness and volunteer controls

Table 1 Demographic data and comorbidity of patients and volunteer controls

	CAP	ILI	Volunteers	P values^†
Cases	149	27	75
Age (median [IQR] yrs)	60(35–77)	31(25–34)	53(45–62)	0.829
Male/female	84/65	16/11	40/35	0.666
Comorbidity*	89(59.7)	6(22.2)	40(53.3)	0.360
COPD	38(25.5)	1(3.7)	15(20.0)	0.360
Asthma	6(4.0)	1(3.7)	6(8.0)	0.212
Bronchiectasis	8(5.4)	0	4(5.3)	0.991
Hypertention	37(24.8)	0	6(8.0)	0.003
Heart cerebro- vascular diseases	28(18.8)	1(3.7)	13(17.3)	0.790
Diabete mellitus	14(9.4)	0	6(8.0)	0.730
Hepatic disease	5(3.4)	1(3.7)	3(4.0)	0.892
Renal disease	2(1.3)	0	1(1.3)	0.542
Other diseases	21(14.1)	2(7.4)	6(8.0)	0.186

Note: *All data were showed as numbers (%) unless otherwise specified. ^†Comparisons were made between groups CAP and volunteers by non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test for quantitative characteristics and Fisher’s exact or Chi-square test for categorical variables, respectively.

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