Adult influenza epidemic is associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Authors :: Yasunori Suematsu, MD, PhD
Takashi Kuwano, MD, PhD
Motoki Yamashita, MD, PhD
Hiroyuki Tsutsui, MD, PhD
Naoki Sato, MD, PhD
Takanori Ikeda, MD, PhD
Ken Nagao, MD, PhD
Naohiro Yonemoto, MPH, PhD
Yoshio Tahara, MD, PhD
Keijiro Saku, MD, PhD
Shin-ichiro Miura, MD, PhD
on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society with Resuscitation Science Study (JCS-ReSS) Group
Source :: Medicine, Vol 101, Iss 24, p e29535 (2022)
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Wolters Kluwer, 2022.
Abstract: Abstract. It has been reported that influenza infection is associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin (OHCA-CA). However, the association between OHCA-CA and influenza epidemics in adults has not been well investigated. We analyzed data from the All-Japan Utstein Registry, a prospective, nationwide, population-based, observational study, regarding OHCA-CA cases and the Infectious Diseases Weekly Report for influenza cases: 17,710 OHCA-CA cases and 764,808 influenza cases were recorded between 2005 and 2015 in Fukuoka, Japan. The weekly average number of OHCA-CA cases was positively associated with the number of patients with influenza infection (r = 0.70, P

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