WASHINGTON, D.C.: The risk of a heart attack may be increased six-fold within the first week after detection of laboratory-confirmed influenza infection, a new study said lastg week.

Researchers in Canada looked at nearly 20,000 Ontario adult cases of laboratory-confirmed influenza infection from 2009 to 2014 and identified 332 patients who were hospitalized for a heart attack within one year of flu diagnosis.

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