Abstract Background Influenza vaccination reduces illness and fatality in older adults, especially those with cardiovascular comorbidities. Objective To investigate influenza vaccination uptake among community-dwelling older Brazilian patients with cardiovascular comorbidities. Methods This cross-sectional study analyzed data from the ELSI-Brazil Second wave (2019-2021), involving 9,949 older adults. Participants with cardiovascular conditions provided data on influenza vaccination from the previous year. Vaccination-associated factors were identified, with subgroup analyses for each cardiovascular comorbidity. An exploratory analysis investigated the primary reasons for non-vaccination. Statistical […]

The COVID-19 pandemic The World Health Organization recognized COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Since then, this public health emergency has become the leading cause of death in the world and has made addressing it an unquestionable priority. At the time of writing this editorial, we counted 86 969 386 confirmed cases and 1 915 657 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, of which, 8 013 708 cases in Brazil resulted in 201 460 deaths. According to projections by the […]