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Restrepo, Sibila, and Anzueto: Pneumonia in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a frequent comorbid condition associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Pneumonia is the most common infectious disease condition. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the impact of pneumonia in patients with COPD. We will evaluate the epidemiology and factors associated with pneumonia. We are discussing the clinical characteristics of COPD that may favor the development of infections conditions such as pneumonia. Over the last 10 years, there is an increased evidence that COPD patients treated with inhaled corticosteroids are at increased risk to develp pneumonia. We will review the avaialbe information as well as the possible mechanism for this events. We also discuss the impact of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination in the prevention of pneumonia in COPD patients.

Introduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the leading cause of death for both males and females in the United States and is projected to rise in ranking by 20201. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COPD became the third leading cause of death by 20082. Furthermore, according to the World Health Organization in 2014, lower respiratory tract infections and COPD represented the third and fourth leading causes of death worldwide3. In addition, community acquired pneumonia is cause of morbidity and mortality around the world. Pneumonia is the seventh leading cause of death overall and first leading cause of infectious death in the United States4 and Europe5. Pneumonia was associated with more than 1.1 million inpatient hospitalizations and 50,000 deaths in 201067 the vast majority of deaths due to pneumonia occur in patients over 65 years of age. This condition is responsible for a high financial burden with over $10 billion spent caring for patients with pneumonia67. Therefore, it is important to understand the association between COPD and pneumonia, as well as their impact in patient's management.

Epidemiology

COPD alone affects 20 million Americans, and is one of the most frequently reported comorbid conditions in pneumonia patients89101112. Clinical studies of pneumonia including outpatient, inpatient and intensive care unit (ICU) cohorts have shown that COPD is a frequently reported comorbid condition (Figure 1)1314151617. Compared to patients without COPD, pneumonia patients with COPD are likely to have more severe pneumonia, increased number of hospital admissions, and worse outcome181920. In the first year after a COPD diagnosis, individuals are at 16 times the risk for pneumonia compared to those without COPD21. In a recent study the incidence rate of community acquired pneumonia was 22.4 events per 1,000-person years in the 10 years following the diagnosis of COPD, and more than 50% higher in those categorized as having severe COPD22. Furthermore, the economic impact of pneumonia is greater for those with COPD, illustrated by a doubling of direct medical costs following an inpatient hospitalization for pneumonia compared to those without COPD in a study of older individuals. More recent studies evaluated the risk of pneumonia in COPD patients that also have other co-morbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease (CVD). COPD patients with CVD had increased risk of pneumonia23. Lin et al.23 reported that COPD patients with CVD who received inhaled corticosteroids (ICS)-containing therapy had significantly increased risk of developing pneumonia compared to those who did not receive ICS-containing therapy or those who only had comorbid CVD. The increased incidence of pneumonia in COPD patients using ICS is discussed latter.
Despite COPD being one of the most frequent comorbid conditions and a risk factor for developing pneumonia, it has not been recognized as an increased risk factor for mortality in pneumonia patients242526. Furthermore, in the well-validated prediction rule developed as part of the pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) cohort study, that evaluated 30-day mortality in patients with pneumonia, excluded chronic pulmonary disease as a risk factor27. This prediction rule was based on 20 variables that included five comorbid illnesses (cardiovascular, history of malignancy, cerebrovascular, renal and liver diseases)27. In addition, Fine et al.11 published a meta-analysis related to prognosis and outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients, and found that patients with pulmonary diseases, including COPD, asthma and interstitial lung disease, did not show higher mortality. However, in previous research (PORT studies and the metaanalysis), the diagnosis of COPD was combined with asthma and interstitial lung diseases, which might be inaccurate given that these conditions exhibit different natural histories, and may bias the overall impact of COPD on pneumonia morbidity and mortality.28 Restrepo et al.19 reported that COPD patients hospitalized with pneumonia, compared to patients without COPD, show significantly higher 30- and 90-day mortality and latter Rello et al.20 showed also increased mortality in pneumonia patients with COPD that required mechanical ventilation. In addition, hospitalized pneumonia patients with COPD exhibited significantly higher rates of ICU admission and a longer length of hospital stay compared with those without COPD. However, a systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 studies (cohort [n=9] and case-control [n=2]) showed that COPD was not associated with increased mortality in cohort studies and reduced mortality in cases-control studies of hospitalized patients with pneumonia29. In addition, COPD was not associated with longer hospital stay and more need for mechanical ventilation. Therefore, despite a higher risk to develop pneumonia the current evidence suggest that COPD may not be associated win increased morbidity and mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumonia. However, some of these studies had important limitations such as an imprecise COPD and pneumonia diagnosis. Furthermore, distinguishing among pneumonic and non-pneumonic exacerabtions in COPD patients is still a matter of controversy in the big epidemiological studies. For all that reasons, prospective population-based cohort studies are needed to further clarify this issue.

Pathogenesis

The mucosal surface of the COPD patient's lung is constantly exposed to microbial pathogens that have the potential to cause pneumonia in susceptible hosts. The risk of developed pneumonia could be related to host related factors, or microbiome changes that allow increased presence of pathogenic organisms. Microbiome imbalances can contribute to disease as they disrupt normal micro-environmental stimuli for the human host30. An effective early immune response in the lower respiratory tract is crucial for a successful balance of the microbiome. Cells of the innate immune system possess germline-encoded pattern-recognition receptors that can sense conserved microbial molecules referred to as pathogen associated molecular patternsand set off a cascade of immune responses. Among pattern-recognition receptors, nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain-like receptors are unique cytosolic receptors, which constantly patrol for changes in pathogens in cytoplasm. There is intense research to describe inflammasome assembly, activation, and their role in acute pneumonia31. Furthermore, understanding the interactions between different inflammasomes during the innate immune response is essential for identifying how immune sensors are stimulated by ligands and ultimately, for development of therapies to attenuate excessive tissue damage.
COPD patients may be more susceptible to develop pneumonia based on their clinical characteristics such as having chronic bronchitis with persistent mucus production, and the presence of potential pathogenic bacteria in the airways, the presence of bacteria in the airway in stable COPD patients and increased numbers during exacerbations have been associated with increased inflammation and the host immune response32. Chronic bronchitis in COPD is seen more frequent in persistent smokers and has been associated with increased disease progression, and more frequent exacerbations32. This is likely since chronic bronchitis is associated with airway infection. Mucus production is an important feature in COPD patients with chronic bronchitis. Mucus that is formed in the airways is a protective barrier composed of water, salt and proteins. The major macromolecular components of the mucus are proteins called mucins33. Experimental studies have demonstrated that mucin secretion is required for defense against bacterial infections, linking mucin deficiency with chronic airway infections. Airway mucins have been shown to be an important airway mucus transport, leading to sputum production, increased airway inflammation, infection, worsening airflow obstruction and markers of disease progression34. In moderate COPD, increases of MUC5AC and MUC5B have been detected compared to non-smokers and smokers without airway obstruction35, although these findings have not been related to airway infection. In non-cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchiectasis, elevated MUC2 levels were related to the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and disease severity36. Recent Sibila et al.37 reported that airway MUC2 levels are decreased in severe COPD patients colonized by positive pathogen microorganism. These studies suggest that mucins changes may be one of the mechanisms underlying airway bacterial changes in COPD patients, and may be associated with presence of pathogenic bacteria; but its role in the development of pneumonia has not been described.
Braeken et al.38 reported the associations between COPD and pneumonia in a large population-based study. The authors discussed potential smoking-induced mechanisms leading to increased risk of pneumonia in COPD, such as host physiological and structural changes, increased bacterial virulence and impaired host immunity. Shukla et al.3940 found increased respiratory tract epithelial expression of specific bacterial adhesion factors in COPD, platelet-activating factor receptor (PAFr) which is the major pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae adhesion molecule. The authors suggested that this could be one important mechanism that could significantly increase the risk of Streptococcus pneumoniae respiratory infection in COPD. Pack-years of smoking were strongly related to epithelial PAFr protein levels in COPD patients40. Furthermore, the authors also found that S. pneumoniae expresses phosphorylcholine in its cell wall that specifically binds to PAFr, leading to initial attachment and subsequent translocation of bacteria into deeper tissue. Translational research in this area of bacterial-epithelial interactions can provide novel insights into pathogenesis of pneumonia in COPD patients, its natural history, as well as new therapeutic targets. Blocking the initial stages of bacterial adhesion and colonization in already activated epithelium in COPD patients could emerge as a promising target for the development of alternate, non-antibiotic pharmacotherapies for the management of the disease and its infective complication41. Therefore, there are multiple factors in COPD patients that may predispose them to have an increased risk factor for development of pneumonia (Table 1).

Pathogens

Understanding of the role of bacteria in patients with stable COPD, and how potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated in these patients under stable conditions can contribute to pneumonia is not well known. Some studies suggested that these bacteria contribute to chronic airway inflammation leading to COPD progression and increased risk to develop pneumonia4243. More important, since the description of the lung microbiome on healthy individual using molecular culture-independent techniques have identified that normal airway has multiple bacteria species and these are different in patients with underlying lung conditions like COPD. Analysis of the highly conserved 16S rRNA gene has been used to assign phylogeny and allowed picture of the complete microbial community in in the respiratory tract including upper airway, sinus, and bronchial tree44. The number of studies examining the lower airways microbiome have significant increased over the past few years and they describe the differences in bacteria philia in patient with chronic disease including COPD, asthma and healthy individuals3045. A study reported a significantly different bacterial community in patients with very severe COPD compared with nonsmokers, and among smokers compared to patients with CF46. Clinical studies are needed to understand the role of bacteria microbiomes in COPD patients and the risk of pneumonia. Furthermore, we need to understand the impact of antibiotics, given for either acute exacerbations, or chronic long-term administration, on these bacterial communities and pneumonia.
Liapikou et al.47 reported in a study of severe pneumonia patients with COPD that microbiological diagnosis occurred in 46% patients, and blood cultures were diagnostic in 12% of cases. The most frequent microorganism identified in COPD patients with pneumonia was S. pneumoniae . Other investigators also reported that in elderly patients with COPD and pneumonia, S. pneumoniae was the most frequent organisms isolated48. Patients with COPD also had more infections attributable to P. aeruginosa, but fewer attributable to Legionella pneumophila compared to non-COPD patients, respectively. Other studies suggest that hospitalized pneumonia patients with COPD have more infections attributable to P. aeruginosa, particularly in those patients with bronchiectasis1949. Other risk factors for Pseudomonas and other potentially drugresistant pathogen such as previous isolation, ICU admission, immunosupresion and prior antimicrobial therapy (<90 days) have been described in COPD patients50. These data support the Infectious Diseases Society of America and American Thoracic Society (IDSA/ATS) recommendation that appropriate diagnostic procedures and anti-pseudomonas coverage should be considered in pneumonia patients with severe COPD, whether bronchiectasis is present, particularly those treated with corticosteroids51. Therefore, it is important to recognize COPD in patients with pneumonia so that they may receive appropriate antimicrobial therapy.

ICS and Pneumonia

ICS are anti-inflammatory agents widely used in respiratory medicine. Their established efficacy and safety profile have placed this class of medications at the current treatment recommendations in chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and COPD5253. In COPD ICS have demonstrated to reduce the overall frequency of exacerbations and improve quality of life535455. Paradoxically, several large trials have demonstrated that the use of ICS was associated with an increased incidence of pneumonia in COPD patients225657585960616263 (Table 2). Festic and Scanlon64 reported systematic literature review identified randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that had pneumonia measured as a safety or adverse effect; these trials reported an increased risk of pneumonia. The most studied medication was fluticasone, followed by budesonide and mometasone. TORCH was the largest RCT; it included more than 6,000 patients and was the first trial to show significantly increased risk of pneumonia (hazard ratio, 1.64; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.33–2.02)56. The risk of developing pneumonia increased with duration of therapy, dose, age and disease severity. Several other trials demonstrated increased risk of pneumonia among ICS users22575859616263. This report64 also reported the risk of pneumonia in COPD patients using ICS from observational studies65666768. All observational studies showed increased risk of pneumonia. Several of the RCTs of ICS in COPD have reported unadjusted risk of pneumonia-related mortality; none found a difference between ICS and non-ICS arms22565758596061626364. Several observational studies reported either similar or lesser mortality among ICS users, despite increased risk of pneumonia65,66,67. A study of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals assessed the association of ICS exposure with mortality for hospitalized subjects with pneumonia that had COPD6566. The use of ICS showed a protective effect with an unadjusted relative risk of 0.50 (95% CI, 0.41–0.60) for 30-day mortality. Joo et al.67 analyzed a dataset from the VA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also showed decreased risk of 30-day mortality followed admission for pneumonia. Some of these studies also reported an improvement in other pertinent outcomes among patients using ICS, such as decreased risk of parapneumonic effusion and less frequent need for mechanical ventilation and use of vasopressors656668697071.
Some studies have related ICS use with potentially drug resistant pathogens. Sibila et al.72 showed COPD patients hospitalized with pneumonia that prior outpatient use of ICS was associated with a higher severity of illness at admission and antimicrobial drug-resistant pathogens. This study found that ICS was not associated with higher mortality and/or length of hospitalization. Liapikou et al.47 reported that COPD patients treated with chronic ICS had a higher rate of pneumonia due to P. aeruginosa but less Legionella spp. infection. However, antimicrobial resistance was not assessed in COPD patients treated with ICS. Thus, Sibila et al.50 raised the concern of a possible association with the use of ICS and antimicrobial drug resistant pathogens. In summary, these studies suggest that ICS may alter habitual flora and antimicrobial susceptibility particularly in COPD patients with chronic airway infections.
There are indications of ICS-interclass differences in pneumonia risk with some evidence of a weaker association of pneumonia with budesonide than with fluticasone propionate therapy. In randomized, controlled trials, treatment with fluticasone propionate alone or in combination with salmeterol was associated with increased prevalence of pneumonia compared with long-acting bronchodilator monotherapy (salmeterol or tiotropium) or placebo5657585960. This risk appeared to increase with decreased lung function and duration of therapy73. A systematic review of 6 randomized, placebo-controlled trials tested the new formulation of fluticasone furoate alone or in combination with a new long-active β-agonist, vilanterol for at least 28 weeks of duration showed has a significant increased risk of pneumonia in ICS compared with vilanterol727374. In an epidemiological study in COPD population from Canada, Suissa et al.62 reported a 101% higher risk of pneumonia in COPD patients treated with fluticasone propionate and a 17% increased risk in budesonide-treated patients when compared with controls not treated with ICSs. Most randomized controlled studies of budesonide alone or in combination with long-acting β2 agonist (formoterol) reported no or lower increased risk of pneumonia757677. In a study by Sharafkhaneh et al.78 found an association between budesonide treatment and increased risk of pneumonia. In the Cochrane review by Kew and Seniukovich79, an indirect comparison found no significant difference between fluticasone propionate and budesonide monotherapy in the risk of serious adverse events (pneumonia-related or all-cause) or mortality, but a higher risk of any pneumonia event (including less serious cases treated in the community) mainly for fluticasone compared to budesonide. In the report by Halpin et al.80, an indirect comparison between budesonide and fluticasone propionate found that adverse pneumonia events and serious pneumonia adverse events were lower for budesonide. However, a retrospective analysis of the large, 4-year, prospective, randomized Understanding Potential Long-term Impacts on Function with Tiotropium (UPLIFT) trial evaluated differences in incidence of adverse respiratory events among patients entering the study on no ICS, on fluticasone propionate, or on any other ICSs, respectively81.
The data discussed suggested that there are differences in the risk of ICS formulations and pneumonia, the question is why? First, we can evaluate the pharmacokinetics and drug absorption of different ICS formulations. The use of ICS ensures that high concentration of active drug is delivered locally to the airways and lungs with a relatively low systemic burden. After inhalation, ICS are deposited as small particles on the surface of airway mucosa, and they gradually dissolve in mucosal lining fluid before they are absorbed into airway/lung tissue, target cells to exert local immunosuppression and reduction of inflammation82. The local pharmacokinetic profile of ICSs, i.e., the rate and extent of airway/pulmonary absorption, is strongly dependent on the intrinsic physicochemical properties of corticosteroids, particularly lipophilicity, aqueous solubility, and airway epithelial permeability. The important determinant of dissolution rate of ICS particles in the airway epithelial lining fluid is aqueous solubility, which greatly differs between various ICSs82. Fluticasone propionate; its long duration of action n the airways is determined by prolonged presence of slowly dissolving particles of fluticasone propionate in airway luminal fluid and the long presence of the medication within airway/lung tissue due to high lipophilicity83. On the other hand, budesonide is rapidly absorbed from the airway lumen, and in patients with COPD, a larger fraction of fluticasone was expectorated in the sputum compared with budesonide (Figure 2)84. Thus, the different ICSs molecules, their pharmacokinetics determine the duration that the compound is in the airway epithelium, these factors may impact the lung microbiota and the risk of pneumonia.
In stable COPD patients, higher airway bacterial load was shown to be significantly correlated to higher ICS dosage, and this relationship remained significant in a multivariate analysis including age, smoking status, and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)% predicted84. Furthermore, it was shown that ICS use may alter the airway microbiota composition85868788. Importantly, according to the “keystone pathogen” hypothesis, even small alterations in the abundance of a few bacterial species can have great effects on microbial community and subsequently modify disease status. The prolonged presence of slowly dissolving particles of fluticasone propionate in the airway epithelial lining fluid compared with budesonide may cause a protracted local immunosuppression. Contoli et al.87 demonstrated that long-term use of fluticasone affects bacterial load in stable COPD patients (Figure 3). Thus, local immunosuppression by ICS may enhance susceptibility to respiratory infections and change the microbiome in the airways and lungs to allow more potential pathogenic bacteria. These changes may lead to increased risk to develop pneumonia. However, the associated impact of ICS among patients who developed pneumonia on mortality and poor clinical outcomes is a matter of significant controversy89. Some studies have demonstrated that COPD patients receiving ICS that developed pneumonia had lower mortality6566. Further studies are needed to better understand this potentially dual effect on pneumonia due to the ICS use in patients with COPD.

Prevention: Vaccination

Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for all adults, mainly in patients with underlying conditions such as COPD. Influenza vaccine has been shown to decrease pneumonia diagnoses, as well as related hospitalizations and cardiac events909192. Current options specifically for patients 65 years of age and older include the Fluzone high-dose vaccine, which was shown to be 24% more effective in preventing flu with a standard-dose vaccine939495. In COPD patients, influenza vaccination can also reduce serious illness (such as lower respiratory tract infections requiring hospitalization96 and death979899. Fiore et al.97 demostrated that influenza vaccination resulted in a significnat decreased in hospitalizations due to respiratory conditions. Only few studies have evaluated the impact of influenza vaccination on COPD exacerbations and showed significant reduction in the total number of exacerbations per vaccinated subject compared with those who received placebo98. A population-based study suggested that COPD patients, particularly the elderly, had decreased risk of ischemic heart disease when they were vaccinated with influenza vaccine over subsequent years99. Thus, yearly influenza vaccination clearly provides a significant protection to COPD patients to decreased risk of hospitalization due to respiratory conditions Pneumococcal vaccines have demonstrated efficacy in preventing vaccine-strain pneumococcal pneumonia, bacteremia, and invasive disease, but do not prevent all types of CAP100. The addition of pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV13) to the pediatric immunization schedule in 2010 has resulted in an indirect reduction of pneumococcal infections in adults101. The Community-Acquired Pneumonia Immunization Trial in Adults (CAPITA), a large, double-blind, randomized study, confirmed the efficacy of PCV13 in preventing vaccine-type pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease in adults ≥65 years of age102. In this study, PCV13 demonstrated significant efficacy in the per-protocol population protecting against first episodes of confirmed vaccine-type pneumonia and confirmed nonbacteremic and noninvasive vaccine-type pneumonia, in addition, immunogenicity studies of older adults in the United States and Europe demonstrated that conjugated vaccine generated an immune response comparable to that of polysaccharide vaccine102. Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) is recommended for COPD patients 65 years and older, and in younger patients with significant comorbid conditions such as cardiac disease103. Specific data on the effects of PPV in COPD patients are limited. PPV has been shown to reduce the incidence of community-acquired pneumonia in COPD patients younger than age 65 with an FEV1 <40% predicted or comorbidities (especially cardiac comorbidities)104. A systematic review of injectable vaccines in COPD patients identified twelve randomized studies for inclusion and observed injectable polyvalent pneumococcal vaccination provides significant protection against pneumonia. The authors concluded that injectable polyvalent pneumococcal vaccination provides significant protection against pneumonia, although no evidence indicates that vaccination reduced the risk of confirmed pneumococcal pneumonia, which was a relatively rare event. Vaccination reduced the likelihood of a COPD exacerbation, and moderate-quality evidence suggests the benefits of pneumococcal vaccination in patients with COPD. Evidence was insufficient for comparison of different pneumococcal vaccine types104. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with COPD receive influenza and both pneumococcal vaccinations to prevent poor related outcomes.

Conclusion

COPD is the most frequent comorbid condition that is present in patients with pneumonia. These patients are older and have other co-morbidities like CVD that will further impact patients' outcomes. Human microbiome that is different in COPD patients compared with normal individuals may be impacted by medical interventions such as use of ICS. COPD and their pharmacotherapy should be considered as a risk factor for pneumonia. Furthermore, strategies to improve implementation of influenza and/or pneumococcal vaccination is critical in COPD patients at risk to develop pneumonia.

Notes

Authors' Contributions: Conceptualization: all authors. Methodology: all authors. Writing - original draft preparation all authors. Writing - review and editing: all authors. Approval of final manuscript: all authors.

Conflicts of Interest: No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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Figure 1

The impact of comorbid conditions on the incidence of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. CHF: congestive heart failure; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Reproduced from Ramirez et al. Clin Infect Dis 2017;65:1806-12, with permission of Oxford University Press17.

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Figure 2

Cumulative mean amounts of expectorated sputum (A) and budesonide and fluticasone propionate (B) over 6-hour collection after inhalation of a dose of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate (50/500 µg via Diskus; GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford, UK) or budesonide/formoterol (400/12 µg via Turbuhaler; AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden). Mean value plots of the amount of expectorated sputum (arithmetic means) (A) and budesonide and fluticasone propionate in the expectorated sputum (percentage of estimated lung-deposited dose, geometric means) (B), cumulative over the 6-hour collection period. BUD/FORM: budesonide/formoterol; SAL/FLU: salmeterol/fluticasone propionate. Reproduced from Dalby et al. Respir Res 2009;10:104, according to the Creative Commons license BMC84.

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Figure 3

Airway bacterial load and microbiome analysis. Total bacterial load is shown as colony-forming units (CFU) per mL and was assessed at baseline (V0) and after 12 months of therapy (V4) in sputum samples from patients in both the salmeterol/fluticasone (SALM/FP) and SALM alone groups. Reproduced from Contoli et al. Eur Respir J 2017;50:1700451, with permission of European Respiratory Society87.

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Table 1

Factors that may predispose Pneumonia in COPD patients

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Chronic bronchitis
Persistent mucus production
Presence of bacterial colonization
Microbioma imbalances
Increased airway inflammation
Impaired host immunity
Structural damage

COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Table 2

Studies evaluating the effects of inhaled corticosteroids in COPD patients and the risk of pneumonia

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Author/Year Study design No. of COPD patients Type of corticosteroid Risk of pneumonia
Kardos et al.57 (2007) Randomized controlled trial 994 Fluticasone propionate Increased risk
Calverley et al.56 (2007) Randomized controlled trial 6,112 Fluticasone propionate Increased risk
Wedzicha et al.58 (2008) Randomized controlled trial 1,323 Fluticasone propionate Increased risk
Ernst et al.59 (2007) Case-control study 175,906 Beclomethasone, budesonide, triamcinolone,fluticasone and flunisolide Increased risk
Welte et al.60 (2009) Randomized controlled trial 660 Budesonide No increased risk
Mullerova et al.22 (2012) Cohort study 40,414 Not specified Increased risk
Dransfield et al.61 (2013) Two parallel-group randomized controllled trials 3,255 Fluticasone furoate Increased risk
Suissa et al.62 (2013) Cohort study 163,514 Beclomethasone, budesonide, fluticasone, triamcinolone and flunisolide Increased risk
DiSantostefano et al.63 (2014) Cohort study 11,555 Not specified Increased risk

COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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