Statin Use and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Persons > 65 Years of Age, Taiwan

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 1243 - 1250
• Main Authors: Tsai, Lung-Wen, Chen, Yung-Tai, Shih, Chia-Jen, Ou, Shuo-Ming, Chao, Pei-Wen, Lo, Shih-Hsiu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.06.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Age; Ambulatory care; Analysis; Cardiovascular disease; critical illness; Diabetes; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Illnesses; Influenza; Influenza vaccines; National health insurance; Older people; Online databases; Pneumonia; Population; Statin Use and Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Persons ≥ 65 Years of Age, Taiwan; Statins; Vaccination; vaccine-preventable diseases; Vaccines; viruses; Taiwan; United States > US; influenza; viruses; hospitalization; critical illness; vaccines; Taiwan; respiratory diseases; vaccine-preventable diseases

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 influenz...