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October 21, 2002
U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Influenza Vaccination Is Not Associated With a Reduction in the Risk of Recurrent Coronary Events" American Journal of Epidemiology (www.aje.oupjournals.org)
(10/02) Vol. 156, No. 7, P. 634; Jackson, Lisa A.; Yu. Onchee; Heckbert, Susan R.
One of the factors scientists have suggested in acute cardiac events is influenza. A recent study sought to gauge the relationship between heart attack survivors inoculated against influenza and recurrent coronary events. The study enrolled 1,378 patients who had survived a first myocardial infarction between 1992 and 1996, who were then followed for a median of 2.3 years for their risk of recurrent coronary events. The researchers concluded that no association existed, either for the period of November to October, or for the influenza period between November and April.
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