Influenza-Associated Morbidity and Mortality in Young and Middle-Aged Women

Article Abstract:

Young and middle-aged women with chronic diseases may experience serious complications from influenza. Researchers analyzed hospitalization rates and mortality rates among all women 15 to 64 years old enrolled in Tennessee's Medicaid program between 1974 and 1993. Some of the women had chronic diseases such as diabetes, lung disease, heart disease, cancer, or HIV infection. The hospitalization and mortality rates during a bout of influenza were much higher in these women compared to women without chronic disease. This demonstrates that younger women with chronic conditions should be vaccinated against influenza.

Patient outcomes, Mortality, Complications and side effects, Chronic diseases, Middle aged women

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The effect of influenza on hospitalizations, outpatient visits, and courses of antibiotics in children

Article Abstract:

Influenza affects many children, but especially those less than one year old. In a study of healthy children covered by the Tennessee Medicaid program, the number of hospitalizations for heart or lung disease was greater than expected when the influenza virus was circulating. In children younger than one year, the excess hospitalization rate was 50 per 10,000 children and for those younger than 6 months, it was 104 per 10,000 children. By the age of 3, it was only 9 per 10,000 and by the age of 5, only 4 per 10,000.

Statistical Data Included, Children, Demographic aspects, Medical care, Medical care utilization, Hospitalization

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Impact of influenza on acute cardiopulmonary hospitalization in pregnant women

Article Abstract:

Researchers conducted a nested case-control study to quantify influenza-related serious morbidity in pregnant women. The study sample included women aged between 15 and 44 who were enrolled in the Tennessee Medicaid program for at least 180 days between 1974 and 1995. In the study, researchers compared 4,369 women with 21,845 population controls during influenza season. The results suggest that out of every 10,000 women, 25 will be hospitalized with influenza-related morbidity.

Risk factors, Diseases, Pregnant women

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