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Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection
Author(s) -
Jeffrey C. Kwong,
Kevin L. Schwartz,
Michael A. Campitelli,
Hannah Chung,
Natasha S. Crowcroft,
Timothy Karnauchow,
Kevin Katz,
Dennis T. Ko,
Allison McGeer,
Dayre McNally,
David Richardson,
Laura C. Rosella,
Andrew E. Simor,
Marek Smieja,
George Zahariadis,
Jonathan B. Gubbay
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1702090
Subject(s) - myocardial infarction , medicine , virology , cardiology , intensive care medicine
Acute myocardial infarction can be triggered by acute respiratory infections. Previous studies have suggested an association between influenza and acute myocardial infarction, but those studies used nonspecific measures of influenza infection or study designs that were susceptible to bias. We evaluated the association between laboratory-confirmed influenza infection and acute myocardial infarction.

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