Populations at High-Risk for Influenza: Cardiometabolic Disease

Published: Oct. 15, 2021, 3:50 p.m.

b'Credits: 0.25\\xa0AMA PRA Category 1 Credit\\u2122 CME/CE Information and Claim Credit: https://www.pri-med.com/online-education/podcast/influenza-populations-at-high-risk-3 Overview: Join us to discover why it is important to prevent influenza and treat patients with influenza who have cardiometabolic disease. After this brief podcast, you will be able to identify the types of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases that put patients at high risk of influenza complications and determine which patients should get the high-dose influenza vaccine, according to recent data. You will also be able to answer the question of whether anti-influenza drugs affect the risk of incident cardiovascular events. Find out all this and more to protect your patients with cardiometabolic disease this influenza season. Hosts: Erin D. Michos, MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FASE, FASPC; Charles Vega, MD, FAAFP Executive Producer: Margaret Oliverio, MD'