AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Influenza vaccination reduces risk of adverse cardiac events during flu season.(Brief Article)
2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The risk of developing complications from cardiac infarction and angioplasty procedures during flu season dropped after influenza vaccination, say investigators in Argentina.
"Recent reports have detected an increase in the number of patients with acute coronary syndromes during the flu season," explained E. P. Gurfinkel and collaborators at the Fundacion Favaloro in Argentina. "We evaluated the preventive impact of vaccination on subsequent ischemic events in myocardial infarction patients and in subjects undergoing planned percutaneous coronary angioplasty."
The investigators conducted a prospective, multicenter trial during the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere. A total of 301 patients, who were either admitted with myocardial infarction (n=200) or who underwent planned angioplasty/stenting (PCI, n=101), participated. Subjects in the PCI group did not have complicating factors such as unstable coronary artery disease (CAD), previous bypass surgery or angioplasty, or tissue necrosis.
After receiving treatment, the infarction patients were randomly assigned to a vaccination or control group, as were the patients in the PCI group. Gurfinkel and associates followed up on the patients at 6 months (Influenza vaccine pilot study in acute coronary syndromes and planned percutaneous coronary interventions: The FLU vaccination acute coronary syndromes (FLUVACS) study, Circulation, 2002;105(18):2143-2147).
...
- Kristi Yamaguchi Joins the American Lung Association of the Central States to...
- Newspaper article from: Vaccine Weekly October 14, 2009 700+ words
...importance of annual influenza vaccination and help community...for the upcoming flu season. This year...recommending seasonal influenza vaccination as the first line...and encouraging influenza vaccination among recommended...
- Kristi Yamaguchi Joins the American Lung Association of the Central States to...
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire September 29, 2009 700+ words
...importance of annual influenza vaccination and help community...for the upcoming flu season. This year...recommending seasonal influenza vaccination as the first line...and encouraging influenza vaccination among recommended...
- HHS Launches National Influenza Vaccination Week.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 27, 2006 700+ words
...today kicked off National Influenza Vaccination Week by urging Americans...yet to get them before flu season peaks. National Influenza Vaccination Week runs from November...vaccine to distribute this flu season. To make vaccination...
- Pennsylvania to Observe National Influenza Vaccination Week.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 21, 2006 700+ words
...National Influenza Vaccination Week, which...shot. "Flu season has already...National Influenza Vaccination Week is a...throughout the flu season." Every...National Influenza Vaccination Week is supported...
- Few children younger than age 2 years receive influenza vaccination.(Infectious...
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Worcester, Sharon November 15, 2008 700+ words
...2006-2007 flu season, and only...the previous flu season. "The findings...and access to influenza vaccination for more children...continued low influenza vaccination coverage among...throughout the flu season, holding vaccination...
- Longer season for influenza vaccination urged.(Infectious Diseases)
- Magazine article from: Skin & Allergy News Ault, Alicia November 1, 2007 700+ words
...providers to administer influenza vaccination beyond the traditional...mistakenly believe that influenza vaccination causes illness...dispel this myth. Influenza vaccination rates are below...the 2005-2006 flu season, which was presented...
- CDC Announces Weeklong Event to Focus on the Importance of Influenza...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 13, 2006 700+ words
...Thanksgiving as National Influenza Vaccination Week. This year, National Influenza Vaccination Week will run from...circulate throughout the flu season, the CDC's Advisory...flu. National Influenza Vaccination Week is a collaborative...
- CDC Suspends Tiered Influenza Vaccination Schedule; At-Risk and Healthy Persons...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 21, 2003 700+ words
...suspended its tiered influenza vaccination schedule for this...start of this flu season, so that all...implemented a tiered influenza vaccination schedule, prioritizing...advance of each influenza vaccination season to determine...