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- Title
Circulating influenza virus, climatic factors, and acute myocardial infarction: a time series study in England and Wales and Hong Kong.
- Authors
Warren-Gash, Charlotte; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Hayward, Andrew; Leung, Gabriel M; Lo, Su-Vui; Wong, Chit-Ming; Ellis, Joanna; Pebody, Richard; Smeeth, Liam; Cowling, Benjamin J
- Abstract
Previous studies identifying associations between influenza and acute cardiac events may have been confounded by climatic factors. Differing seasonal patterns of influenza activity in Hong Kong and England and Wales provide a natural experiment to examine associations with myocardial infarction (MI) independent of cold weather effects.
- Publication
The Journal of infectious diseases, 2011, Vol 203, Issue 12, p1710
- ISSN
1537-6613
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jir171