Elderly pneumonia

Compared with young people, the morbidity and mortality of senile pneumonia are significantly increased. There are many reasons. Objectively, due to aging of the body, changes in the anatomy and function of the respiratory system, the defense and immune functions of the whole body and the respiratory tract are reduced. The functional reserve of important organs such as liver and kidney is weakened or suffers from a variety of chronic serious diseases, malnutrition, etc .; the subjective reason is that the doctor or patient has insufficient understanding of the atypical clinical manifestations of senile pneumonia, delayed diagnosis and inappropriate treatment measures.

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