Seniors are advised to get vaccinated against pneumonia, but that precaution is also a good idea for people of any age with celiac disease, according to a U.K. study.
Despite their greater risk for pneumonia, only about one quarter of celiac patients get a pneumonia vaccine after they are diagnosed, the study team writes in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
To assess the link between pneumonia and celiac disease, the researchers used data on English patients collected between 1997 and 2011, including 9,803 with celiac disease and a comparison group of 101,755 people without celiac.
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