NEJM: The risk of heart disease in the first week of influenza is six times higher than usual.

A study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows that flu significantly increases the risk of heart attack, especially in the first week of flu, six times as often. The researchers also found a slight increase in the risk of heart attack in people over 65. The importance of getting the flu was underscored by the fact that 332 people in the study had a heart attack after contracting the flu, 69 percent of whom did not get the flu vaccine.
the journal Vaccines, the flu vaccine is protective of the heart and reduces the risk of heart disease.
The American edition of Reader's Digest, which published Lauren Gelman's "10 Things You Need to Know About Influenza Viruses," helps us understand this "enemy" through the flu virus's autobiography.
just a small cold? If you look down on us, you'll lose. In the U.S. alone, we send an average of 200,000 people to hospitals each year, taking at least 23,000 lives (usually with complications such as pneumonia). Instead of bragging, we are perfectly capable of making a perfectly normal, healthy person a mess.
breath will spread us. Don't assume that only sneezing and coughing can spread us, you can spread thousands of viruses every breath you breathe. The flu has an incubation period, and 24 hours before you develop symptoms, you're already infecting people.
dry air makes me go further. When the air is dry, we can "float" farther, which gives us more opportunities to attack others.
we have a passion for fat people. We are three times more likely to fatally kill obese people than normal weight. It will compress your lungs and make you breathe harder than others, making it harder to resist us. In addition, obesity may make flu vaccines less effective.
we like children. Children are the main force that spreads us, their immune systems are not yet mature and take longer to deal with us, so we have enough time to reproduce and let the disease last longer. Children are usually not very hygienic, and if we infect a child, it can easily attack his family and classmates.
we are most afraid of the flu vaccine. Flu vaccines are our stars, and they are the most effective means of controlling our large-scale outbreaks. A flu vaccine is the equivalent of a high-intelligence device for your immune system, which can accurately identify us and destroy it with precision. The previous flu vaccine was resistant to three types of influenza, but now we're even more wary because of a new vaccine that can fight against four types of flu. In addition, people with egg allergies also have new vaccines available, and even more, there are also the emergence of a strong vaccine designed for the elderly, alas.
If you take a sick job, it helps us a lot. When you work with illness and walk into the office, you pass us on to your colleagues, so your body is harder to deal with us, so your recovery will be longer. If you take one day off sick leave, you'll reduce the infection rate by 25%.
anti-flu virus drugs are our enemies. After we successfully invaded your body, anti-flu drugs became our worst enemy. These drugs can fight us effectively and make it difficult for us to reproduce, which means it shortens your illness. But that doesn't mean we don't have a chance, and if you want to beat us quickly, it's right to see when you take your medicine. You take the most medicine within 48 hours of developing cold symptoms, and if you delay treatment, we become powerful and insurmountable.
If you don't like to wash your hands, I want to thank you. In addition to the flu vaccine, your good hand washing habits are one of the biggest headaches. Recently we have heard that 10 per cent of people go to the toilet and do not wash their hands, and 20 per cent only flush with water and do not use soap. Both are good news for us, so we just have to stay in your hands for a while and wait for you to touch your nose, eyes or mouth with your hands.
we are also afraid of "sterilizing agents". I'm talking about sanitary products that have been tested to kill viruses (including us), and cleansers with "sterilizing" labels that kill only bacteria. The steriliser stays for a few minutes to be effective, so if you spray it onto the surface and wipe it off right away, some of us have a chance to survive.
Reference:
(1) Global Network "Watch Out!" The risk of heart disease in the first week of influenza is 6 times the usual
(2) Yangzi Evening News, "The flu virus has a special love for fat people"
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