The importance of sex as a risk factor for hospital readmissions due to pulmonary diseases

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Table 2 Number of index admissions and % of readmissions overall and by sex for selected pulmonary diseases in adults age 65 years and older in 2016, Veneto Region

	Total		Male		Female
	IA	% R^a	IA	% R^a	IA	% R^a
Bronchitis and asthma	1140	4.1	445	5.6^†	695	3.2
Pneumonia	6258	6.5	3220	7.3^†	3038	5.7
Pulmonary edema and respiratory failure	5260	9.5	2580	10.4^†	2680	8.6
COPD	2211	9.5	1152	10.8^†	1059	8.1

^aR readmissions (patients hospitalized again for the same disease within 30 of their IA)
^†p < 0.05 (vs female)

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