A new study from the University of Calgary says getting the annual flu shot may have a major health bonus other than fending off the latest strain of influenza — it may also lower the risk of having a stroke.
Researchers from the Cumming School of Medicine evaluated the health records of more than four million Albertans over a nine-year period.
Holodinsky said the reduction in the risk of a stroke was 23 per cent overall. The risk reduction in men was 28 per cent, but in women it was only 17. Dr. Michael Hill, a physician and principal investigator, said there is literature going back 25 years showing respiratory infections can be linked to strokes.
“We found that individuals who were serially vaccinated every year, the risk was much lower as they increased the number of years of serial vaccinations,” she said.
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