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==Risk Factors== | ==Risk Factors== | ||
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! style="background: #4479BA; color:#FFF;" |Persons at higher risk for severe influenza and complications | |||
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* Children aged younger than 2 years | |||
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* Adults aged 65 years and older | |||
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*[[Asthma]]tic patients | |||
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*Blood disorders (such as sickle cell disease) | |||
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*Kidney disorders | |||
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*Liver disorders | |||
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*[[Heart disease]], such as: | |||
:*[[Congenital heart disease]] | |||
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:*[[Coronary artery disease]] | |||
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* Metabolic disorders (such as inherited metabolic disorders and mitochondrial disorders) | |||
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* Pregnant women | |||
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* Persons with immunosuppression, including that caused by medications, cancer or by HIV infection | |||
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:*Neurologic and neurodevelopment conditions (including disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and muscle such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, stroke, intellectual disability [mental retardation], moderate to severe developmental delay, muscular dystrophy, or spinal cord injury) | |||
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* Persons aged younger than 19 years who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy | |||
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* American Indians/Alaska Natives | |||
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* Persons who are morbidly obese (BMI > 40) | |||
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* Residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities. | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 17:13, 28 October 2014
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Alejandro Lemor, M.D. [2]
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