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. 2024 Dec 26:ciae649.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae649. Online ahead of print.

Atrial Fibrillation after RSV Vaccination Among Older Adults

Morgan Birabaharan  1 , Scott T Johns  2 , David C Kaelber  3 , Thomas C S Martin  1   2 , Sanjay R Mehta  1   2
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Atrial Fibrillation after RSV Vaccination Among Older Adults

Morgan Birabaharan et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

RSV vaccine clinical trials reported higher frequencies of atrial fibrillation in intervention groups compared to control. In this large, population-based, propensity-matched study, we found RSV vaccine was not associated with increased risk of new-onset or recurrent atrial fibrillation within 1-42 days compared to influenza or Tdap vaccines.

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