As flu season looms, the virus may not only leave people vulnerable to pneumonia, fever and body aches — but it may also increase the risk of heart attack, according to several past studies.
Those who had the flu were six times more likely to experience a heart attack a week after testing positive compared to the year before or after, according to a group of researchers from the Netherlands who presented their findings last spring at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) meeting in Copenhagen.
