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2003 NOV 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A 1-year follow-up demonstrated that influenza and 23-valent pneumococcal vaccines reduce hospital admissions and mortality in elderly adults.
"To assess the effectiveness of influenza and pneumococcal vaccination in reducing hospitalization and deaths in elderly people, the population aged greater than or equal to65 years in Stockholm County, Sweden (n=259,627) were invited to take part in a vaccination campaign with influenza and 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PV). A number of persons (100,242) (vaccinated cohort) were vaccinated with one or both vaccines during the campaign," scientists writing in the journal Vaccine report.
"The incidence of hospital admissions during one year after the vaccination campaign, adjusted for sex and age, was significantly lower in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated cohort for influenza (relative risk [RR] 0.68), pneumonia (RR 0.78), and invasive pneumococcal disease (RR 0.46)," stated Jonas Hedlund and colleagues at the ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Influenza and pneumococcal vaccines reduce mortality in elderly...