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The Shot That Prevents Heart Attacks
Yahoo ^ | 26 Noov 2012 | Lisa Collier Cool

Posted on 11/26/2012 10:01:36 PM PST by shove_it

If you’re tempted to skip your flu shot, consider this: Getting vaccinated cuts risk for a heart attack or stroke by up to 50 percent, according to two studies presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.

Scientists from TIMU Study Group and Network for Innovation in Clinical Research analyzed published clinical trials involving a total of 3,227 patients, half of whom had been diagnosed with heart disease. Participants, whose average age was 60, were randomly assigned to either receive flu vaccine or a placebo shot, then their health was tracked for 12 months.

Those who got the flu shot were 50 percent less likely to suffer major cardiac events (such as heart attacks or strokes) and 40 percent less likely to die of cardiac causes. Similar trends were found in patients with and without previous heart disease. The findings suggest “that flu vaccine is a heart vaccine,” lead study author Jacob Udell told Fox News.

Why do flu shots help prevent heart attacks? [...]

(Excerpt) Read more at health.yahoo.net ...


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Hmmmmm. I'm wondering, how many people in such a clinical trial would go and get another flu shot just in case they may have been given the placebo.
1 posted on 11/26/2012 10:01:42 PM PST by shove_it
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To: shove_it

As far as I’m concerned this is just another reason to skip the shot.


2 posted on 11/26/2012 10:04:27 PM PST by null and void (Knowledge increases exponentially, wisdom increases logarithmically.)
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To: shove_it

What a bunch of BS....read the comments after the article....


3 posted on 11/26/2012 10:15:08 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: null and void

I don’t need a reason to skip the flu shot.


4 posted on 11/26/2012 10:16:20 PM PST by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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To: shove_it
Correlation is not causation. Explain the mechanism.
5 posted on 11/26/2012 10:19:08 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: shove_it; All

Something just isn’t right with this study...

It’s like saying....”Those who root for the Alabama school with red helmets are more likely to see winning football than those who root for the Alabama school with white helmets”


6 posted on 11/26/2012 10:21:44 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Marco Rubio is not a Conservative. "Amnesty Liberals" are never Conservative)
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To: Myrddin

They explain it fully in the article that you didn’t bother to read.


7 posted on 11/26/2012 10:25:07 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: goodnesswins

Lots of looney comments for sure. The dark ages have returned. It is sad to also see that there are so few educated and enlightened FReepers left.


8 posted on 11/26/2012 10:27:58 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: goodnesswins

Oh another study funded by a government. Kinda like the government funded hoax called global warming . Sure there is no agenda and it’s all fake but accurate. I don’t trust anything from the media or government. government doesn’t work. I wonder why they want us to take the flu shot so badly? Any ideas?


9 posted on 11/26/2012 10:29:57 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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10 posted on 11/26/2012 10:29:57 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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It’s pretty interesting. It kind of debunks all of the cholesterol-high fat-sedentary lifestyle theories of heart disease. Or at least a good portion of it.


11 posted on 11/26/2012 10:32:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: shove_it

These studies are so stupid. I learned that me punching you in the face increases your anger 10 fold.


12 posted on 11/26/2012 10:37:44 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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They explain it fully in the article that you didn’t bother to read.

Please, it was written by a chick.
13 posted on 11/26/2012 10:40:03 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Kirkwood

Maybe the ignorant are just more vocal in response to articles like this.


14 posted on 11/26/2012 11:03:37 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Kirkwood

Oh, really? I’ll stick with my fish oil, Vit D3 and niacin...thank you.... The flu shot only covers something like 1-2 different viruses.....and there are MANY more out there....So, WHICH version of the “flu” does this particular shot cover?


15 posted on 11/26/2012 11:11:55 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: shove_it

If this is so, maybe the reason why is that fewer flus means fewer strenuous coughs, which in turn can stress the circulatory system. Just a guess. It’s worth investigating to see if it’s true. Vaccines of any sort are a health trade off, and if I were king I’d make them all voluntary.


16 posted on 11/26/2012 11:50:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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duh! ..if you're looking after yourself..healthwise..
you'll live longer &/ better...simply that!

17 posted on 11/27/2012 12:01:10 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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To: shove_it
300,000 Flu Vaccines Recalled Over Serious Adverse Reactions
18 posted on 11/27/2012 12:05:24 AM PST by Daffynition (Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
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It's still a crap study...even after reading it. The patients all had diagnosed heart disease and the study period lasted 12 months. They report observed occurrences of cardiac events and postulate that inflammation caused by flu was the cause of those events. They can't prove those immunized were ever actually exposed to flu. There is no control for whether those participants in the study were offered other medications that reduce inflammation independent of the flu shot. It's a puff piece to push flu shots.
19 posted on 11/27/2012 12:06:08 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: goodnesswins
My daily regimen of supplements gets the job done for me. No flu shots since 2005. No flu since then either. My co-workers go for the damn shot and lose a couple weeks of work every year. I soldier on unaffected.
20 posted on 11/27/2012 12:11:09 AM PST by Myrddin
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