Apolipoprotein E and Incident Hypertension: The Bambuí Health Aging Study

Abstract

ing home-acquired pneumonia (NHAP) and do not normally require empirical coverage. 3 Regarding guidelines, the suggestion for treating nonambulatory residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is mentioned only briefly in the recent consensus guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia. 2 That statement directs the reader to the consensus guidelines for treatment of healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP). 1 Careful examination of those guidelines reveals a strong bias toward hospitalized patients and the acknowledgment that the evidence-based studies of the relationship between risk factors and bacteriology were primarily of patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia, which were then extrapolated to patients with HCAP.