Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection

Patients who had a positive laboratory test for influenza were six times as likely to be hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction during the 7 days after specimen collection (the “risk interval”) as during the year before and the year after the risk interval.

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2018-01, Vol.378 (4), p.345-353
Hauptverfasser: Kwong, Jeffrey C, Schwartz, Kevin L, Campitelli, Michael A, Chung, Hannah, Crowcroft, Natasha S, Karnauchow, Timothy, Katz, Kevin, Ko, Dennis T, McGeer, Allison J, McNally, Dayre, Richardson, David C, Rosella, Laura C, Simor, Andrew, Smieja, Marek, Zahariadis, George, Gubbay, Jonathan B
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Zusammenfassung:Patients who had a positive laboratory test for influenza were six times as likely to be hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction during the 7 days after specimen collection (the “risk interval”) as during the year before and the year after the risk interval.
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1702090