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Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Serious Pneumococcal Infections Increase The Risk Of Heart Attack
March 03, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 3 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:

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 developmen . . .

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