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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2020 Jun;26(6).
doi: 10.3201/eid2606.190646.
Statin Use and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Persons >65 Years of Age, Taiwan
Lung-Wen Tsai, Yung-Tai Chen, Chia-Jen Shih, Shuo-Ming Ou, Pei-Wen Chao, Shih-Hsiu Lo
Abstract
Debates on whether statin use reduces the effectiveness of influenza vaccines against critical illness and death among persons >65 years of age continue. We conducted a study of 9,427,392 persons >65 years of age who did and did not receive influenza vaccinations during 12 consecutive influenza seasons, 2000-01 through 2011-12. Using data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, we performed propensity score-matching to compare vaccinated persons with unvaccinated controls. After propensity score-matching, the vaccinated group had lower risks for in-hospital death from influenza and pneumonia and for hospitalization for pneumonia and influenza, circulatory conditions, and critical illnesses compared with the unvaccinated group. We stratified the 2 groups by statin use and analyzed data by interaction analysis and saw no statistically significant difference. We found that influenza vaccine effectively reduced risks for hospitalization and death in persons >65 years of age, regardless of statin use.
Keywords: Taiwan; critical illness; hospitalization; influenza; respiratory diseases; vaccine-preventable diseases; vaccines; viruses.
. 2020 Jun;26(6).
doi: 10.3201/eid2606.190646.
Statin Use and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Persons >65 Years of Age, Taiwan
Lung-Wen Tsai, Yung-Tai Chen, Chia-Jen Shih, Shuo-Ming Ou, Pei-Wen Chao, Shih-Hsiu Lo
- PMID: 32441242
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2606.190646
Abstract
Debates on whether statin use reduces the effectiveness of influenza vaccines against critical illness and death among persons >65 years of age continue. We conducted a study of 9,427,392 persons >65 years of age who did and did not receive influenza vaccinations during 12 consecutive influenza seasons, 2000-01 through 2011-12. Using data from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, we performed propensity score-matching to compare vaccinated persons with unvaccinated controls. After propensity score-matching, the vaccinated group had lower risks for in-hospital death from influenza and pneumonia and for hospitalization for pneumonia and influenza, circulatory conditions, and critical illnesses compared with the unvaccinated group. We stratified the 2 groups by statin use and analyzed data by interaction analysis and saw no statistically significant difference. We found that influenza vaccine effectively reduced risks for hospitalization and death in persons >65 years of age, regardless of statin use.
Keywords: Taiwan; critical illness; hospitalization; influenza; respiratory diseases; vaccine-preventable diseases; vaccines; viruses.