[HTML][HTML] Metformin use before influenza vaccination may lower the risks of influenza and related complications

FS Yen, JCC Wei, YH Shih, CY Hsu, CC Hsu, CM Hwu - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Older adults are more likely to have influenza and respond less well to the flu vaccine. We
conducted this study to investigate whether pre-influenza vaccination metformin use had an
effect on influenza and relevant complications in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Propensity score matching was used to identify 28,169 pairs of metformin users and
nonusers from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database from 1 January
2000 to 31 December 2018. We used Cox proportional hazards models to calculate the risks …

[CITATION][C] Metformin Use before Influenza Vaccination May Lower the Risks of Influenza and Related Complications. Vaccines 2022, 10, 1752

FS Yen, JCC Wei, YH Shih, CY Hsu, CC Hsu, CM Hwu - 2022 - europepmc.org
Older adults are more likely to have influenza and respond less well to the flu vaccine. We
conducted this study to investigate whether pre-influenza vaccination metformin use had an
effect on influenza and relevant complications in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Propensity score matching was used to identify 28,169 pairs of metformin users and
nonusers from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database from 1 January
2000 to 31 December 2018. We used Cox proportional hazards models to calculate the risks …