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Risk Factors for Pneumonia and the Effect of the Pneumococcal Vaccine in Patients With Chronic Airflow Obstruction

Kazuyoshi Kurashima, MD, PhD1 Yotaro Takaku, MD1 Keitaro Nakamoto, MD1 Tetsu Kanauchi, MD2 Noboru Takayanagi, MD1 Tsutomu Yanagisawa, MD1 Yutaka Sugita, MD1 Ryuichiro Araki, MD3

Author Affiliations

  1. Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan
  2. Radiology, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kumagaya City, Saitama, Japan
  3. Community Health Science Center, Saitama Medical University, Moroyama-machi, Saitama, Japan

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KazuyoshiKurashima, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center
Itai 1696, Kumagaya City
Saitama 360-0197, Japan
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E-mail: kurashima.kazuyoshi@pref.saitama.lg.jp

Abstract

Background: To evaluate the risk factors for pneumonia and the efficacy of the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) in patients with chronic airflow obstruction.

Methods: We retrospectively studied the risk factors for pneumonia in 820 consecutive patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (n=509) and patients with asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) (n=311). The effects of asthma, age, smoking history, chronic sputum, use of inhaled corticosteroids, percent predicted forced vital capacity (%FVC), percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second (%FEV1), body mass index (BMI), computed tomography (CT)-diagnosed emphysema, and the pneumococcal vaccination on the frequency of pneumonia were assessed.

Results: There was no difference in the frequency of pneumonia in patients with COPD and those with ACOS. In a univariate analysis, age (p= 0.031), %FVC (p< 0.001), %FEV1 (p < 0.001), BMI (p = 0.003), the presence of emphysema (p < 0.001) and a history of vaccination with the PPV (p = 0.034) were associated with the frequency of pneumonia. A multivariate analysis identified low BMI, the presence of emphysema and the absence of a pneumococcal vaccination as independent risk factors. The combination index of these factors, the BOVE index, which is calculated from low BMI (<22 kg/m2), low %FEV1 (<60%), vaccination history and emphysema was associated with the overall frequency of pneumonia.

Conclusions:The index of multidimensional risk factors is useful to predict the frequency of pneumonia in patients with chronic airflow obstruction. The pneumococcal vaccination was associated with significantly lower incidence of pneumonia.

Citation

Citation: Kurashima K, Takaku Y, Nakamoto K, et al. Risk factors for pneumonia and the effect of the pneumococcal vaccine in patients with chronic airflow obstruction. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2016; 3(3): 610-619. doi: http://doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.3.3.2015.0167

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Running Head: Risk Factors for Pneumonia in COPD and ACOS

Funding support: None

Date of Acceptance: January 15, 2016

Abbreviations: pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, PPV; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD; asthma-COPD overlap syndrome, ACOS; percent predicted forced vital capacity, %FVC; percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second, %FEV1; body mass index, BMI; community-acquired pneumonia, CAP; chronic airflow obstruction, CAO; computed tomography, CT; high resolution computed tomography, HRCT; pulmonary function tests, PFTs; standard deviation, SD; inhaled corticosteroids, ICSs

Citation: Kurashima K, Takaku Y, Nakamoto K, et al. Risk factors for pneumonia and the effect of the pneumococcal vaccine in patients with chronic airflow obstruction. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2016; 3(3): 610-619. doi: http://doi.org/10.15326/jcopdf.3.3.2015.0167

Introduction

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at a greater risk of pneumonia than the general population.1 In these patients, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) frequently leads to hospital admission and increased mortality. Age, the severity of airflow limitation, low body mass index (BMI) and a history of pneumonia are reported to be the risk factors for pneumonia in patients with COPD.2,3 However, a significant proportion of patients with COPD have features of asthma and the differential diagnosis of COPD and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) is sometimes difficult.4-8 There is limited knowledge about the risk factors for pneumonia in patients with chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) including COPD and ACOS.

Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of CAP in patients with COPD; it accounts for up to 43% of CAP cases.9 The 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) has been proven to have a protective effect against pneumococcal pneumonia in immunocompetent adults,10 however, there is only limited evidence on the efficacy of the vaccination in patients with chronic illness or COPD.11-15 Furthermore, a double blind-control study is not ethically possible in Japan because the COPD guidelines recommend the use of the PPV.16-18

We previously reported the clinical outcomes of patients with COPD, ACOS and other patients with CAO.19 Using the data of these patients, we performed a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the risk factors for CAP including the presence of asthma, the presence of computed tomography (CT)-diagnosed emphysema and pneumococcal vaccination in patients with COPD and ACOS.

Methods

Patients

This was a retrospective cohort study. The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center (IRB No. 2012001), and informed consent was not required.

We previously reported the clinical outcomes of 1272 consecutive patients with CAO who presented to the Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center (a tertiary referral center with 155 beds for respiratory disease) in Saitama, Japan, from 2000 to 2011. We first screened all 1960 patients who showed airflow limitations that were not fully reversible (Figure 1).

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CAO was defined as a forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio of < 0.7 after the use of bronchodilator throughout the observation period. In the present study we performed sub-analyses for 509 patients with COPD and 311 patients with ACOS who could be followed for more than 1 year. The definitions of COPD and ACOS have been previously described.13 In brief, criteria for the diagnosis of COPD included CAO and ≧10 pack years of smoking without other respiratory complications documented by medical history, physical examination and high resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Criteria for the diagnosis of ACOS included CAO, medical history of asthma, a post bronchodilator increase in FEV1 of >12% and 200 ml, and evidence of at least 1 of the following: sputum eosinophilia (>3%) or increased exhaled nitric oxide (>30ppb) or evidence of atopy. All of the patients who were entered in the present study were examined by HRCT. In patients who received a pneumococcal vaccine, the start of the observation period was defined as the time of vaccine administration. In those patients without the vaccine we started the observation period when the initial diagnosis was made. The explanatory variables for pneumonia and other demographic data were obtained within 3 months of the start of the observation period. We asked every patient about his/her vaccination status at the start and then once a year during the observation period. Patients were followed until March 2012 or until death or loss to follow-up before March 2012. The frequency of CAP throughout the observation period was calculated. The diagnosis of pneumonia was based on clinical symptoms (cough, sputum or fever), the increased serum level of C-reactive protein, and the appearance of a new infiltration on a chest X-ray. Doctor-diagnosed aspiration pneumonia was excluded in this study.

High Resolution Computed Tomography

HRCT scans were performed in full inspiration with a HiSpeed Advantage CT scanner (GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) with the following parameters: slice thickness, 1 mm; scanning time, 1 second; voltage 140 kV, tube current 200 mA, and a field of view of 20 cm. The presence of emphysema was defined as well-demarcated areas in which attenuation was decreased in comparison to contiguous normal lung and marginated by a very thin wall (or no wall) with upper zone predominance. The presence of emphysema and the CT diagnosis were determined by 2 radiologists with extensive experience in the diagnosis of respiratory diseases; all were blind to the findings of the other researchers.

Pulmonary Function Tests

Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) were performed with a CHESTAC8800 (Chest MI Corp., Tokyo, Japan). Spirometry was performed according to the guidelines issued by the American Thoracic Society / European Respiratory Society, and the predicted values were derived from the Japanese Respiratory Society.20,21 Spirometry was performed before and 30 minutes after the inhalation of 200 µg of salbutamol; the data obtained after the inhalation were used for the evaluation.

Statistical Analysis

Categorical baseline characteristics are shown as percentages, and continuous characteristics are reported as the mean ± standard deviation (SD). Categorical values were compared using a chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test. Continuous variables were compared using the Mann-Whitney' U-test. Comparisons between subgroups of 3 or more groups were performed by Dunn's post-test after the Kruskal-Wallis test.

We first screened the following variables as possible risk factors for pneumonia by univariate analysis: presence of asthma, age, pack years of smoking, current smoking, presence of chronic sputum, FVC, FEV1 (measured as a percentage of the predicted value according to the guidelines of the Japanese Respiratory Society),21 airway reversibility with short acting beta2-agonist, BMI, use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs), and a history of pneumococcal vaccination. Using the variables identified by univariate analysis, we identified independent risk factors for pneumonia by a multivariate Poisson regression analysis with Firth's bias reduction. Regression analyses were analyzed with the SAS version 9.1.3 SP4 software program (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina). Other analyses were performed using the Prism 5 software program (Graph Pad Software, Inc., La Jolla, California). P values of < 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant.

Results

The clinical characteristics of the patients are shown in Table 1. The mean observation period was 5.5 years. More than 80% of patients with ACOS had a history of smoking and 51.1% of patients with ACOS had emphysema on HRCT. There were no differences in the age and the pneumonia frequency between the COPD and ACOS groups. One hundred and fifty eight patients (19.3%) received the PPV and another 662 were followed clinically.

JCOPDF-2015-0167-Table1

In the total of 820 patients, 131 (16.1%) patients had 199 episodes of pneumonia. The incidence of pneumonia (55.9 per 1000 patient-years) was compatible to those of previous studies of COPD patients (47 - 55 per 1000 patient-years).14,22 The causative bacteria were only recorded in 37 episodes of pneumonia (18.7%). S. pneumonia was identified in 1 episode of pneumonia in the PPV group and 19 episodes of pneumonia in the no-PPV group (p = 0.077, single-sided Fisher’s test). Among the 114 deceased patients, 7 patients were found to have died from pneumonia, none of whom had received the PPV (p= 0.222, single-sided Fisher’s test).

We evaluated the possible risks for pneumonia in a total of 820 patients. Pneumonia occurred almost equally in the patients who were treated with ICSs (55.3 per 1000 patient-years; 430 patients) and those who were not (56.4 per 1000 patient-years; 390 patients). Patients with chronic sputum (388 patients) had 56.9 cases of pneumonia per 1000 patient-years, whereas 53.7 pneumonia cases per 1000 patient-years occurred in patients without sputum (411 patients, NS). The univariate analysis revealed that age (p= 0.031), %FVC (p< 0.001), %FEV1 (p< 0.001), BMI (p= 0.003), emphysema (p< 0.001) and a history of pneumococcal vaccination (p = 0.034) were associated with the frequency of pneumonia. However, the presence of asthma was not associated with the frequency of pneumonia. To examine the independent risk factors for pneumonia, we subjected the above factors to a multivariate Poisson regression analysis. Low BMI, the presence of emphysema and the absence of pneumococcal vaccination were identified as the independent risk factors for pneumonia in patients with COPD including ACOS (Table 2).

JCOPDF-2015-0167-Table2

As shown in Figure 2, patients with CT-diagnosed emphysema had a higher frequency of pneumonia than those without emphysema (69.6 per 1000 patient-years versus 23.5 per 1000 patient-years, respectively). When stratifying the study population by the median of BMI (22 kg/m2) and %FEV1 (60%, predicted), patients with lower BMI (<22 kg/m2) had a higher frequency of pneumonia than those with higher BMI (≥ 22 kg/m2) (72.6 per 1000 patient-years versus 34.2 per 1000 patient-years, respectively), and patients with lower %FEV1 (< 60%, predicted) had a higher frequency of pneumonia than those with a higher %FEV1 (≥ 60%, predicted) (77.7 per 1000 patient-years versus 30.9 per 1000 patient-years, respectively). Vaccinated patients had a frequency of pneumonia of 28.4 cases per 1000 patient-years, while unvaccinated patients had a frequency of 62.4 cases per 1000 patient-years (p= 0.151).

JCOPDF-2015-0167-Figure2

The combined risk factors of low BMI and low %FEV1 have been reported to increase the risk of pneumonia in patients with COPD.3 Thus, we next calculated the effects of the combined risk factors for pneumonia, i.e., low BMI, <22 kg/m2 (B), low %FEV1, <60% (O), a history of pneumococcal vaccination (V) and the presence of CT-diagnosed emphysema (E). As shown in Table 3, the combination of low BMI, low %FEV1 and the presence of emphysema increased the risk of pneumonia.

JCOPDF-2015-0167-Table3

The number of pneumonia events accumulated in the subgroups with more than 2 risk factors and/or the no-PPV group. As shown in Figure 3, the combined BOVE risk index (the sum of [B=1], [O = 1], [V = -1], and [E = 1]) was related to the frequency of pneumonia in patients with COPD.

JCOPDF-2015-0167-Figure3

Discussion

Patients with COPD and ACOS had similar clinical backgrounds in age, BMI, severity of airflow limitation and incidence of pneumonia. The results suggest that risk management for pneumonia should be considered similarly in patients with COPD and ACOS. We introduced a simple grading system for the assessment of pneumonia risk for COPD/ACOS: the BOVE index. It includes 4 independent components (low BMI, low %FEV1, history of pneumococcal vaccination and emphysema), and we believe that it is useful for identifying high risk groups for pneumonia in COPD/ACOS patients. The presence of emphysema was the most significant risk factor for pneumonia and it cannot be modified. However, an important message of the BOVE system would be that pneumococcal vaccination is associated with a significant reduction in the incidence of overall pneumonia.

In 2000, we began to consecutively register patients with CAO. These patients underwent diagnostic procedures and their prognoses were followed with appropriate care.19 At almost the same time, we began to recommend that our patients with chronic respiratory diseases receive the PPV. During the time of this retrospective study, approximately 20% of the COPD patients at our clinic received the vaccination. The pneumococcal vaccination had not been used much in Japan before the government began financial support for the PPV in 2014. Since no attempt was made to allocate the vaccination to particular patients in this study, the bias from the patients’ backgrounds would be limited. The patients who received vaccination were similar to the patients who did not receive it in age, BMI and emphysema. However, patients with the PPV had significantly lower %FEV1 than those of the patients without vaccination (56.7 ± 21.8 versus 61.9 ±24.0, respectively, p= 0.020). Therefore, vaccination benefits shown in this study might be underestimated because of healthy user effect.23

One of the strengths of the present study is that extensive diagnostic tests were performed to rule out other diseases that may cause CAO. Among 1960 consecutive patients who showed airflow limitation that was not-fully reversible, 1140 patients were excluded by the initial differential diagnosis or through repeated examinations over years. It is considered that these diagnostic procedures clarified the cohort of COPD/ACOS patients and allowed us to obtain reliable clinical parameters for the analysis. Another strength of the present study is that all 820 patients underwent HRCT, thus we were able to evaluate the significance of emphysema as a risk factor for pneumonia.

The current data is in accordance with the previous report by DiSantostefano et al who first demonstrated that the combination of low %FEV1 and low BMI increased the risk of pneumonia in COPD patients.3 Another study also linked low %FEV1 to pneumonia.14 Based on these previous reports and our results, we created the BOVE index, which used the combination of low BMI (B = 1), low %FEV1 (O = 1), a history of pneumococcal vaccination (V = - 1) and CT-diagnosed emphysema (E = 1), to predict the risk for pneumonia in patients with COPD/ACOS. The index gave equal weighting to these variables for simplicity in clinical practice. In addition, we consider that different weighting of the variables would not improve the predictive power of the BOVE index because the incidence ratio for each factor was within 2.1 - 2.9.

In this study, the CT-diagnosed emphysema was the strongest risk factor for pneumonia among all of the clinical parameters in patients with COPD/ACOS. Eom et al reported that the presence of emphysema was associated with severity of pneumonia in 148 pneumonia patients with COPD.24 Recently, we demonstrated that lower-lobe emphysema was most strongly associated with exacerbation frequency within the COPD lung structures such as the airway diameters.25 These reports suggest that CT evaluation of emphysema is useful to predict risk and severity of pneumonia in patients with COPD.

There are reports that certain ICSs increase the risk for pneumonia in patients with COPD.26-28 However, we did not observe any difference in the frequency of pneumonia by the use of ICSs. Possible explanations of this result would be the size of this study and dosage of ICS used in this study. In Japan, high-dose ICS (frucicasone 500 μ g, twice per day or budesonide > 320μ g, twice per day) is not used to treat patients with COPD.16

The evidence of a protective effect of a 23 serotype PPV for patients with COPD is limited. A randomized controlled trial was carried out in 596 patients with COPD however, the Kaplan-Meier survival curves for CAP did not show a significant difference between the patients who received the PPV and the non-intervention group. The PPV was only effective in patients with COPD who were younger than 65 years of age and in patients with severe airflow limitation.14 Leech et al administered a 14-serotype PPV in patients with airflow limitation, but did not observe a significant difference between the groups in the 2-year follow-up, partly because the low rate of pneumococcal bacteremia.29 Our retrospective cohort study suggests that it would be difficult to prove effectiveness of the PPV in a simple randomized study because the frequency of pneumonia is low and episodes of pneumonia accumulated in the subgroups with certain risk factors. The present study was able to show that PPV administration was associated with a significantly low incidence of pneumonia in patients with COPD/ACOS. It is noteworthy that none of the vaccinated patients died from pneumonia during the observational period. Gómez-Junyent et al recently reported in a large study that pneumococcal vaccine reduced the risk of mortality in pneumonia patients with COPD.30

The present study is associated with the following limitations. As discussed above, this study was retrospective in nature and the vaccinations were not randomized. However, we recommended vaccination to the patients with chronic respiratory disease per guidelines,31 so that there was no doctor-sided selection bias. Another limitation of the present study is that the etiological bacteria were not assessed due to the limited available data. The cut-off levels of %FEV1 and BMI may change based on certain patient background characteristics, such as race or country. In addition, we did not have data of prior pneumonia or exacerbations before the start of the observation period. Among 42 patients who experienced more than 2 pneumonias during the observation period, 11 patients were in BOVE 3 (26.2%) and 17 patients were in BOVE 2 (40.5%). Therefore, two thirds of the patients who experienced repeated pneumonias were included in higher risk categories. Finally, one third of the COPD individuals in this study had ICS usage. It might be low when compared to international standards. However, the Japanese COPD guidelines do not strongly recommend ICSs unless the patient has repeated exacerbations, an asthma component or late stage airflow limitation.16 In addition, incidence of exacerbations is relatively low in Japan.32

In conclusion, the BOVE index is simple and is able to predict the high risk group for pneumonia in patients with COPD/ACOS. It emphasizes 3 independent risk factors (low BMI, low %FEV1, emphysema) and shows how the PPV reduces the impact of these risks. It will be useful to encourage patients to receive the PPV, for the management of patient health care and for the patient allocation in future clinical trials.

Acknowledgements

Author contributions: Kazuyoshi Kurashima was the principal investigator/corresponding author/guarantor. Yotaro Takaku, Keitaro Nakamoto, Tetsu Kanauchi, Noboru Takayanagi, Tsutomu Yanagisawa, and Ryuichiro Araki were all contributing authors. Yutaka Sugita, provided advice and guidance.

Declaration of Interest

None of the authors have any real or apparent conflicts of interest, including no financial or consulting relationships, to disclose.

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