Influenza-like illness in acute myocardial infarction patients during the winter wave of the influenza A H1N1 pandemic in London: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate recent respiratory and influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) in acute myocardial infarction patients compared with patients hospitalised for acute non-vascular surgical conditions during the second wave of the 2009 influenza A H1N1 pandemic.

Design

Case-control study.

Setting

Coronary care unit, acute cardiology and acute surgical admission wards in a major teaching hospital in London, UK.

Participants

134 participants (70 cases and 64 controls) aged ≥40 years hospitalised for acute myocardial infarction and acute surgical conditions between 21 September 2009 and 28 February 2010, frequency-matched for gender, 5-year age-band and admission week. PRIMARY EXPOSURE: ILI (defined as feeling feverish with either a cough or sore throat) within the

SUBMITTER: Warren-Gash C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3646184 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature