Long-term mortality in patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis: a Danish nationwide cohort study

Casper Roed; Frederik Neess Engsig; Lars Omland; Peter Skinhøj; Niels Obel

doi:10.1093/aje/kwq126

Long-term mortality in patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis: a Danish nationwide cohort study

Casper Roed, Frederik Neess Engsig, Lars Omland, Peter Skinhøj, Niels Obel

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The objective of the study was to determine the long-term mortality and the causes of death in patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis. The authors performed a nationwide, population-based cohort study including all Danish patients diagnosed with pneumococcal meningitis from 1977 through 2006 and alive 1 year after diagnosis. Data were retrieved from medical databases in Denmark. The absolute and relative risks of all-cause and cause-specific death were analyzed by using Kaplan-Meier survival curves, Poisson regression analysis, Cox regression analysis, and cumulative incidence functions. The authors identified 2,131 pneumococcal meningitis patients and an age- and gender-matched, population-based cohort of 8,524 individuals. Compared with the background population, the pneumococcal meningitis patients had an increased long-term mortality varying from an 8-fold increased mortality in the age category 0-

Original language	English
Journal	American Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	172
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	309-17
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0002-9262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq126
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2010

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