Is long-term ( 10-year ) mortality of younger previously healthy patients with severe sepsis/septic shock worse than that of patients with nonseptic critical illness and of the general population?
Previously healthy patients suffering an episode of severe sepsis have increased long-term mortality compared with patients with nonseptic critical illness and a general population.
In IPF and RA-ILD, a high prevalence of concurrent emphysema, in association with low pack-year smoking histories, and an association between coarser pulmonary fibrosis and a history of smoking in IPF together provide support for possible pathogenetic linkage to smoking in both diseases.