Profiles of community acquired pneumonia cases admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Objective: To assess the demographic profiles of community-acquired pneumonia. Methodology: A cross sectional study was carried out for one year, recruiting 160 hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, selected by non-probability convenience sampling method. Demographic variables such as age, gender, education, marital status, residential and socio-economic status were inquired into along with Haemoglobin estimation, Diabetes, Hypertension and Ischaemic heart disease by Pre-designed Questionnaire Performa. Data collected was analyzed by SPSS-14. Results: Out of 160 patients, majority respondents 88 (55%) were males (P < 0.05), while 90 (56.25%) had rural residents predominance (P < 0.05). It revealed 140 (87.5%) respondents were married (P < 0.05), while 18 (11.25%) were < 20 years, 68 (42.5%) were between 20-40 years, 58 (36.25%) from 41-60 years and 16 (10%) were > 60 years of age. There were 110 (68.75%) illiterates from lower socio-economic class. Haemoglobin level was 8-10 gm/dl among majority 80 (50%), and 34 (21.75%) were Diabetics. Conclusion: CAP is frequent among males, rural residents, illiterate, anaemic, diabetics and lower socio-economic married patients from 20-40 years of age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]