The Efficacy of Influenza Vaccination in Patients With Coronary Artery Diseases

Summary

This study wishes to understand: 1. whether vaccination against influenza in coronary artery disease (myocardial infarction and stable angina) patients is as effective as it is in healthy subjects; 2. whether vaccination really decreases the episodes of influenza infection in those coronary artery disease patients who receive the vaccine than those who do not.

Timeline

Start

2008-01

Primary completion

2008-09

Completion

2008-09

Publications

• Background Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, Fukuda K. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the United States. JAMA. 2004 Sep 15;292(11):1333-40. doi: 10.1001/jama.292.11.1333.
• Background Smith SC Jr, Allen J, Blair SN, Bonow RO, Brass LM, Fonarow GC, Grundy SM, Hiratzka L, Jones D, Krumholz HM, Mosca L, Pasternak RC, Pearson T, Pfeffer MA, Taubert KA; AHA/ACC; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. AHA/ACC guidelines for secondary prevention for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2006 update: endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Circulation. 2006 May 16;113(19):2363-72. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.174516. No abstract available.
• Background Gurfinkel EP, de la Fuente RL, Mendiz O, Mautner B. Influenza vaccine pilot study in acute coronary syndromes and planned percutaneous coronary interventions: the FLU Vaccination Acute Coronary Syndromes (FLUVACS) Study. Circulation. 2002 May 7;105(18):2143-7. doi: 10.1161/01.cir.0000016182.85461.f4.
• Background Leon de la Fuente R, Gurfinkel EP, Toledo D, Mautner B; Grupo de Estudio FLUVACS. [Flu vaccination in patients with acute coronary syndromes: treatment benefit in prespecified subgroups]. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2003 Oct;56(10):949-54. doi: 10.1016/s0300-8932(03)76991-7. Spanish.
• Background Jackson LA, Yu O, Heckbert SR, Psaty BM, Malais D, Barlow WE, Thompson WW; Vaccine Safety Datalink Study Group. Influenza vaccination is not associated with a reduction in the risk of recurrent coronary events. Am J Epidemiol. 2002 Oct 1;156(7):634-40. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwf073.
• Background Alpert JS, Thygesen K, Antman E, Bassand JP. Myocardial infarction redefined--a consensus document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee for the redefinition of myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2000 Sep;36(3):959-69. doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(00)00804-4.

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