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Serious pneumococcal infections may increase the risk of heart attack
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Serious pneumococcal infections may increase the risk of heart attack

by Vanderbilt University Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Prior work has demonstrated that infections can potentially lead to systemic inflammatory responses that can trigger the...