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[rafunrafun]

So what is your argument, pertaining to reduce it?

[HDGabor]

K-

Did you read what you cited ...? LOL

The problem is that while quitting smoking and medications are widely used for heart disease management, the flu vaccine is not. Despite guidelines recommending the flu vaccine for all patients with heart disease, studies show that only 30% of heart disease patients under 65 get the flu shot.

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[dmlcento]

HDG/Whal, how about another link.

http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2016/09/29/heartjnl-2016-309983.full

Interesting-

Does influenza vaccine have a place in routine coronary prevention?
Despite the large body of evidence supporting a role for influenza vaccine in coronary prevention, rates of influenza vaccination in patients with heart diseases are low, and vaccination is not a priority among physicians.

[sts66]

The good news is that the flu vaccine helps protect against heart events, reducing risk for heart attack by 19–45%.

Poorly written sentence - the flu vaccine does not reduce risk of MI's - preventing someone with CVD from getting the flu is what supposedly reduces risk. And since yearly flu vaccine targets are hit and miss (they missed last year), I don't know how you can even get valid stats for MI prevention. And I'll bet it varies by age, level/availability of health care, overall health (co-morbidities?), what kind of support system someone has (living alone at age 75 is likely way riskier than living with a helpful family at age 55) - just saying "get the flu shot if you have CVD" is probably risky for some people who may react badly to flu shots.