>>4188433the director of the MHH clinic for Cardiology and Angiology, Johann Bauer axis, sees a connection with the wave of influenza. An influenza illness, but also other inflammations in the body increased the risk of heart attack, said the heart specialist. This is well documented by international studies.
The University Medical Center Göttingen also supplies increasingly flu patients, since the beginning of the year, there were 42. Two-thirds of them have a spokesman announced that influenza type B. The Municipal Hospital Braunschweig also registered more patients with flu symptoms as well as an increase in heart attack patients. On the other hand, there were still no abnormalities in the Klinikum Oldenburg in relation to influenza patients, a spokeswoman said. Figures for the whole country, there are according to the Lower Saxony hospital company currently not.
A wave of influenza has high point is reached
nationwide has reached a new high at the wave of influenza. In the third week of February registered the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) around 24,000 proven flu cases. The dark figure is higher. 136 people died after an influenza infection, in Lower Saxony is six.
The state health agency in Hanover in the last week 1203 new laboratory confirmed influenza cases submitted, during the first five days this week there are already 1453 messages. The total number since the beginning of the season in 5356 and thus slightly higher than in the previous year. Almost one in five patients had to be treated in the hospital.
Vaccination fatigue in the population
the MHH physicians complain about a growing vaccination fatigue in the population. Also young people without any pre-existing conditions could die in a flu, Bauer said axis. A vaccination is recommended especially the elderly and chronically ill as early in the autumn. Now it's too late. The wave of influenza usually ends at the latest by the end of March, a protection is only four weeks after vaccination.
