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Influenza Vaccination for patients with heart-failure

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Professor Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director of The George Institute UK discusses a study in the UK regarding the impact of influenza vaccination for patients with heart-failure.

Patients with heart disease are substantially more at risk of admission to hospital and a proportion of those admissions are thought to be related to influenza infection or at least triggered by an influenza infection.  

Listen to find out more about Professor Rahimi's findings in this two minute video 

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