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Investigating the association between influenza vaccination and reduced stroke risk
- Source :
- Expert Review of Vaccines. 5:535-540
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2006.
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Abstract
- Acute infections, mainly of the respiratory tract, have consistently been demonstrated to considerably increase the risk of stroke. At present, prospective interventional trials are lacking and there is no proof of the effectiveness of any therapeutic anti-infective strategy in stroke prevention. However, some new evidence from observational studies lends support to the idea that influenza vaccination may contribute importantly to fighting stroke. Although final proof of efficacy is still missing, patients with previous cerebral ischemia and subjects of any age at high risk of stroke should be encouraged to receive annual influenza vaccination.
- Subjects :
- Risk
medicine.medical_specialty
Immunology
Ischemia
Acute infection
Stroke risk
Influenza, Human
Drug Discovery
Humans
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Risk factor
Intensive care medicine
Respiratory Tract Infections
Stroke
Inflammation
Pharmacology
business.industry
medicine.disease
Vaccination
Influenza Vaccines
Stroke prevention
Molecular Medicine
Observational study
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17448395 and 14760584
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Expert Review of Vaccines
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....353ec9d8923170bb1786e7a0994f567d