HEALTH TIPS: More help from the flu shot
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Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Inactivated Influenza Vaccine: What You Need to Know (PDF – KB) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Did you know the annual flu shot can also protect the heart? Experts say it reduces the chance that people with heart disease will get a recurrence or get sicker – and possibly die.
This double-barreled benefit from a single-barrel shot is why the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology say these folks should get flu shots. Their report is in the heart association journal Circulation.
Harlan Krumholz of Yale chaired the panel that wrote the advisory. He says the flu shot adds to ways these people can help themselves.
“We think that people who get flu shots can reduce their risk as much as people who can lower their cholesterol, and keep their blood pressure under control, and have a good diet, and exercise. It’s a substantial reduction in risk.”
All that, and flu protection, too.
Health Tip courtesy of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Last revised: September, 26 2006
