Does the flu increase the risk of heart attacks?
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As flu season looms, the virus may not only leave you vulnerable to pneumonia, fever and aches, but it may also increase your risk of heart attack, according to several past studies.
As the American Heart Association (AHA) stated on its website, one report showed a spike in cardiovascular-related deaths and influenza epidemics that occurred around the same time. Amy McGorry is a contributing health writer for Fox News Digital. Follow her on Twitter @amymcgorry.
Yet another study published in 2020 found that in more than 80,000 U.S. adults who were hospitalized with the flu from 2010 to 2018, one in eight patients had sudden, serious heart complications.
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