• Pneumonia

We would like to thank Drs Campbell-Taylor1 and Iqbal et al 2 for their letters of interest regarding our paper.3 Nonetheless, we are unclear as to the nature of Dr Campbell-Taylor's ‘quibble’ with our methodology. In contrast to the assertion that we did not take confounders into account, we actually adjusted for comorbidities, previous pneumonia, smoking status and alcohol intake as well as age and social deprivation. The concern over whether pneumonitis and …