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Influenza vaccination and cardiovascular risk in patients with recent TIA and stroke

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Neurology. 2014 Apr 30. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza vaccination and cardiovascular risk in patients with recent TIA and stroke.
Lavall?e PC1, Labreuche J, Fox KM, Lavados P, Mattle H, Steg PG, Amarenco P; On behalf of the PERFORM, OPTIC, and AMISTAD Investigators.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES:

To determine whether current influenza vaccination is associated with reduced risk of major vascular events in patients with recent ischemic stroke or TIA of mainly atherothrombotic origin.
METHODS:

Data were pooled from 2 prospective cohort studies, the OPTIC Registry (n = 3,635) and the AMISTAD Study (n = 618), and from the randomized PERFORM Trial (n = 19,120), all of which included patients with recent ischemic stroke or TIA. Influenza vaccination status was determined in 23,110 patients. The primary outcome was a composite of nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, or vascular death up to 2 years. Secondary outcomes were myocardial infarction and stroke separately.
RESULTS:

Influenza vaccination had no association with the primary outcome in the propensity score-matched cohort (hazard ratio 0.97, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.85-1.11; p = 0.67) or in the propensity score-adjusted cohort (hazard ratio 1.00, 95% CI 0.89-1.12; p = 0.99). Similarly, the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction did not differ between the vaccinated group and the unvaccinated group; in the matched cohort, the hazard ratio was 1.01 (95% CI 0.88-1.17; p = 0.89) for stroke and 0.84 (95% CI 0.59-1.18; p = 0.30) for myocardial infarction.
CONCLUSIONS:

Influenza vaccination was not associated with reduced outcome events in patients with recent atherothrombotic ischemic stroke after considering all baseline characteristics (including concomitant medications) associated with influenza vaccination.

PMID:
24789867
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24789867
 
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