Don't Stop Statins in Patients Getting the Flu Vaccine

Patients may ask you whether statins reduce flu vaccine efficacy.

This stems from new data suggesting that seniors taking a statin have a lower immune response to the inactivated trivalent flu vaccine.

Plus other evidence suggests that statin patients vaccinated against flu have more respiratory illnesses.

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