Patients with RA receive less protection from pandemic influenza with H1N1 vaccine
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 07:01
in Health & Medicine
A Brazilian hospital-based study assessed responses to flu vaccines in 340 RA patients in regular follow-up compared to 234 healthy patients. Measures of protection obtained by vaccination (seroprotection rate (SP)) after immunization was over 20% lower for RA patients compared to healthy individuals (60.1% vs. 82.9% comparatively (p
