Acute cardiovascular events in patients with community acquired pneumonia: results from the observational prospective FADOI-ICECAP study

Table 3 Antibiotics used for the treatment of CAP during hospitalisation. The initial antibiotic treatment involved monotherapy or combination therapy

Antibiotic Treatment	General population	Cardiovascular event		P value
Antibiotic Treatment	1266 (%)	Yes 301 (23.8%)	No 965 (76.2%)	P value
Penicillin^a	596 (47.1)	133 (44.2)	463 (48)	0.26
Cephalosporin	405 (32)	106 (35.2)	299 (31)	0.17
Quinolone	359 (28.4)	64 (21.3)	295 (30.6)	0.002
Macrolide	317 (25)	74 (24.6)	243 (25.2)	0.87
Carbapenem	31 (2.4)	9 (3)	22 (2.3)	0.52
Other^b	94 (7.4)	25 (8.3)	65 (6.7)	0.37

^aPenicillin with or without beta-lactamase inhibitor
^bOther classes of antibiotic used were imidazole, sulphamydic, tetracyclin, oxazolodinedion, alone or combined with other antibiotic classes

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