TY - CHAP AU - Patricia Silveyra AU - Nathalie Fuentes AU - Lidys Rivera ED - Zissis C. Chroneos Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Understanding the Intersection of Environmental Pollution, Pneumonia, and Inflammation: Does Gender Play a Role? N2 - Pneumonia is an inflammatory disease of the air sacs and surrounding interstitium caused by infectious agents or by endogenous inflammatory tissue disorder termed interstitial pneumonia. The present book covers contemporary topics of community, hospital, and health care-related bacterial and viral pneumonia in the setting of drug resistance, environmental exposures, climate change, hormonal influences, and gender. The topic of interstitial pneumonia is brought under the lens of an immune-related connective tissue disease. BT - Contemporary Topics of Pneumonia SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69627 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.69627 SN - 978-953-51-3708-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-10 ER -