Statin use and risk of community acquired pneumonia in older people: population based case-control study

We agree that the association between acid-suppressing drugs and
community-acquired pneumonia is of great interest. We have repeated our
primary analyses of statin use and risk of pneumonia including use of acid
-suppressing drugs as a covariate, and our results change very little. The
adjusted odds ratio for current statin use and risk of pneumonia is 1.25
(95% confidence interval, 1.01 to 1.55), and for cases requiring
hospitalization, it is 1.61 (95% confidence interval, 1.08 to 2.40).

Competing interests:
Jennifer C Nelson did consulting work for GlaxoSmithKline