Flu vaccines for adults with diabetes

According to some recent guidelines, all patients with diabetes are highly recommended to receive influenza vaccine. However, there isn`t enough evidence on the safety of this vaccine for diabetes. The results of a new study, published in Diabetologis prove that diabetic patients are at a higher risk to influenza, unlike patients who don`t have diabetes. The study was released by a team of researchers, led by Dr. Jeffrey A. Johnson, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, situated in Canada. For obtaining the final results, the team of researchers used data from Manitoba (Canada), between 2000 and 2008. There were 163,202 people involved in the study. “Our observation that working age adults with diabetes experience a greater burden of influenza than similar non-diabetic adults provides a clinical justification for targeted anti-influenza interventions; identifying particular interventions and evaluating their effectiveness in this population are questions for further research”, said the authors.