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Elderly people with chronic diseases can be vaccinated against flu as of today

Tonka

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http://www.pernambuco.com/ultimas/nota.asp?materia=20100424112434&assunto=31&onde=Brasil

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24.04.2010 | 11h24 | A (H1N1)

Elderly people with chronic diseases can be vaccinated against flu as of today



People over 60 years and have chronic diseases may, from today (24), look for clinics to immunize against influenza A (H1N1) - Swine flu. The fourth stage of the campaign the Ministry of Health ends on May 7.



Pregnant women, children between 6 months and 2 years, chronically ill with less than 60 years and young people between 20 and 29 years who were part of the campaign and other steps were being immunized until yesterday (23) can also go to health centers today ( 24), which opened exceptionally following a recommendation from the Ministry of Health



Check out the full list of chronic diseases released by the Ministry of Health:



? People with high obesity (grade 3)

? Individuals with chronic respiratory disease since childhood (eg, cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia)

? Individuals with asthma (patients with severe forms, as protocol settings of the Brazilian Society of Pulmonology)

? Individuals with neuromuscular disease with impaired lung function (eg, neuromuscular dystrophy)

? Persons with immunosuppression by medication or related to chronic diseases

? People with diabetes

? People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other chronic respiratory diseases with chronic respiratory failure (eg pulmonary fibrosis, sequelae of tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis)

? People with liver disease: biliary atresia, cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis with abnormal liver function and / or antiviral therapy

? People with kidney disease: chronic renal failure, especially in patients on dialysis

? People with hematologic disease: hemoglobin

? People with continued therapy with salicylates, especially individuals aged less than 18 years (eg autoimmune rheumatic disease, Kawasaki disease)

? People with the clinical syndrome of heart failure

? People with structural heart disease with clinical and / or hemodynamic

? People with ischemic cardiomyopathy with ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction, left ventricular [LVEF] less than 0.40)

? Person with hypertensive heart disease with ventricular dysfunction [LVEF] less than 0:40

? People with cyanotic congenital heart disease

? People with acyanotic congenital heart disease, not corrected by surgical or percutaneous intervention

? People with cardiomyopathies (dilated, hypertrophic or restrictive)

? People with pericardial.



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