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Article: Influenza vaccination doesn't reduce risk of recurrent coronary events.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- December 29, 2002
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2002 DEC 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccination against influenza doesn't appear to protect older adults from recurrent coronary events, study findings show.
"Acute respiratory infections, including influenza, have been suggested as possible precipitants of acute cardiac events," noted L.A. Jackson and colleagues at the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle Washington.
The researchers "conducted a population-based inception cohort study of 1,378 Group Health Cooperative enrollees who survived a first myocardial infarction [heart attack] in 1992 through 1996. Recurrent coronary events, influenza vaccinations, and other covariates were ...