Rates of serious influenza-related illness were 1.5 to 2 times higher among older adults with diabetes compared with those without diabetes during five recent influenza seasons, according to a study.
“Influenza circulates annually, and in most years, results in an estimated 140,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations and 12,000 to 52,000 deaths,” Daniel Owusu, DrPH, an epidemiologist in the CDC’s Influenza Division, told Healio. “We wanted to better understand the impact of chronic underlying medical conditions on the risk of severe influenza-associated outcomes, including