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Adults with diabetes show a significantly greater risk for serious illness related to influenza compared with those without diabetes, justifying existing guidelines that call for influenza vaccination in the adult diabetic population, according to new research published online January 24 in Diabetologia.
Working-age adults (under 65 years of age) with diabetes are included in most guidelines for influenza vaccination, including those of the American Diabetes Association and the Canadian Diabetes Association. But research supporting this recommendation is surprisingly limited, and this new study is 1 of only 2 to have followed people with and without diabetes and compared influenza-related outcomes, the researchers explain. In fact, they say their new study "is the strongest available evidence for targeting diabetes as an indication for influenza vaccination, irrespective of age.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/819737
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Working-age adults (under 65 years of age) with diabetes are included in most guidelines for influenza vaccination, including those of the American Diabetes Association and the Canadian Diabetes Association. But research supporting this recommendation is surprisingly limited, and this new study is 1 of only 2 to have followed people with and without diabetes and compared influenza-related outcomes, the researchers explain. In fact, they say their new study "is the strongest available evidence for targeting diabetes as an indication for influenza vaccination, irrespective of age.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/819737
(free registration required)