<div dir="auto">Did they control for factors like lesser ability to get a vaccine, for reasons that correlate to lower access to health care in general?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 7:09 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>The following is from the December 17, 2025 issue of the journal Nature: </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4"><b><i>"A study of 9,000 adults found that those who received the flu shot were 34% less likely to experience serious cardiovascular events in the next year than were those who did not receive the vaccine.  For people with recent cardiac issues, the benefits were even more pronounced, with a 45% lower risk of a serious event.</i>[...] <i>Clinicians should make it clear that for individuals who are at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, the flu vaccine isn’t just a ‘nice to have’ — it’s a clinical necessity."</i></b></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03598-0?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=82ce72787e-nature-briefing-daily-20251218&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-50169436" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>There's already a vaccine for heart disease</b></font></a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">lxg</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>
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