Recovery from pneumonia requires efferocytosis which is impaired in smokers and those with low body mass index and enhanced by statins. [electronic resource]
Producer: 20170612Description: 1052-1054 p. digitalISSN:- 1468-3296
- Adult
- Aged
- Apoptosis -- physiology
- Body Mass Index
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage
- Bronchoscopy
- Community-Acquired Infections -- therapy
- Comorbidity
- England
- Flow Cytometry
- Humans
- Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors -- therapeutic use
- Macrophages, Alveolar -- physiology
- Middle Aged
- Neutrophils -- physiology
- Phagocytosis -- physiology
- Pneumonia -- therapy
- Smoking -- adverse effects
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Publication Type: Letter
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