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Comment
. 2023 Jan;72(1):208-209.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-327086. Epub 2022 Mar 18.

Letter to the editor: vaccination against upper respiratory infections is a matter of survival in alcoholic liver disease

Timo Itzel  1   2 , Thomas Falconer  3 , Jimmy Daza  1   2 , Ana Roig  1   2 , Jimyung Park  4 , Jae Youn Cheong  5 , Rae Woong Park  4   6 , Isabella Wiest  1   2 , Matthias Ebert  2   7 , George Hripcsak  3 , Andreas Teufel  8   2
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Comment

Letter to the editor: vaccination against upper respiratory infections is a matter of survival in alcoholic liver disease

Timo Itzel et al. Gut. 2023 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Efficacy of various vaccines against diverse influenza virus strains throughout the past decade in patients with alcoholic liver disease. For all patients who received vaccination against influenza A or B strains in different influenza seasons as recommended by WHO, a significantly longer survival compared with those without vaccination was demonstrated in New York, New York, USA.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Efficacy of vaccination against the influenza A virus (H1N1) in patients with alcoholic liver disease. Patients who received vaccination had a trends towards longer survival compared with those without vaccination; Ajou University, South Korea (p=0.082).
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