• Pneumonia - Prognosis
• Highlights
• Introduction
• Causes
• Symptoms
• Risk Factors
• Diagnosis

Prognosis

Between 5 and 10 million people get pneumonia in the United States each year, and more than 1 million people are hospitalized due to the condition. As a result, pneumonia is the fourth most frequent cause of hospitalizations.

Although the majority of pneumonias respond well to treatment, the infection kills 40,000 - 70,000 people each year.

Men with community-acquired pneumonia tend to fare worse than women. Men are 30% more likely than women to die from the condition, even if the...