antipsychotic drugs were associated with an increase in the
risk (adj. OR: 5.97; 95% CI: 1.49–23.98); however, this
analysis was based on only seven exposed cases.
Overall, the conclusions from the study from Trifirò et
al. [9••] are very much in accord with the main findings
from another Dutch population-based, nested case-control
study that was done using data from the PHARMO
database [10••]. This study reported an increased risk for
hospitalization due to pneumonia during the first week after
the initiation of antipsychotic drug therapy, and especially
with atypical agents (adj. OR: 3.1; 95% CI: 1.9–5.1).