A Current Health-Related Event or Issue
- Identify a current health-related event or issue.
Flu shot helps heart failure patients avoid hospital.
- Describe in detail this event or issue
A deputy director of the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford England, Kazem Rahimi, decided to focus more in depth with this experiment. His study shows that by getting a flu shot it reduces heart failure patients the risk of hospitalization. Rahimi’s team analyzed data with more than 59,000 heart failure patients in the UK.
- Who is involved in this event or issue?
Heart failure patients
- What is being done about it?
They are being tested to see if the flu shot effect helps them avoid hospitalization.
- Reflection: How does this event or issue relate to you?
This event has nothing to do with me but it does help people around my community since it is very common that they suffer from heart failure due to their lifestyle.
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