Catia Cillóniz
Catia Cillóniz, PhD, FERS is Senior Sientific at the Pneumology Department, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at University of Barcelona, Spain. She is currently the coordinator of the research line “Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)”, which is part of the research group on Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases. Her current field of expertise is the study of pneumonia in all its facets and in all the areas in which research has furthered our understanding of this infectious disease.
Pneumonia is a major threat to public health – why don’t we acknowledge the fact?
Today is the 10th anniversary of the World Pneumonia Day, which aims to increase awareness that pneumonia is a major global clinical and public health issue, and promote interventions that protect against, prevent and treat pneumonia.
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According to the 2017 Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, pneumonia remains the leading cause of death among children under the age of five, in spite of a 36% reduction in pneumonia-related deaths in this population in the last ten years. In the same period, adults aged over 70 years presented a 34% increase in deaths due to pneumonia. Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) remains the most frequent cause of pneumonia and also the main killer in both children and adults.
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