People with Type 2 diabetes may get an added benefit from the flu vaccine: a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.
British researchers studied 124,503 people with Type 2 diabetes over a seven-year period. About two-thirds of them had been vaccinated against flu.
After controlling for sex, age, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, medications and other health and behavioral factors, they found that people with Type 2 diabetes who had gotten the flu vaccine had a 30 percent lower risk of stroke, a 22 percent lower risk of heart failure and a 24 percent lower risk of dying from all causes. They also had a slightly lower, but statistically insignificant, risk for heart attack.
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