Vaccine is not just about preventing flu
Kathy Hubbard Columnist | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 2 months AGO
If you were told that getting a flu shot may lower your risk for having a heart attack or stroke would you be more inclined to get vaccinated? Hopefully, you answered that you would get a flu shot just to make sure you didn’t get the flu, but researchers at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom had some interesting findings.
Funded by National Institute of Health Research, the team led by Niro Siriwardena, professor of primary and pre-hospital health care and a general practitioner found that patients who have the seasonal influenza vaccine could reduce their risk of having a heart attack or stroke by up to 20 percent.
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