Chronic diseases and Flu are a Deadly Combination
By Professor Dr Tan Maw Pin, consultant geriatrician, President of the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine (MSGM) and member of Malaysian Influenza Working Group (MIWG), Dr Aslannif Roslan, Internal Medicine Specialist and Cardiologist from Institut Jantung Negara (IJN), and Associate Professor Dr Lim Lee Ling, Head of the Diabetes Care Unit and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, University of Malaya Medical Centre.
The risk of developing severe disease is higher in the presence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, or chronic lung disease. Too, advancing age makes us a person more susceptible to infectious diseases.
This was an important observation made during the time of the Covid-19 pandemic.Similar to Covid-19, older persons are at a higher risk of developing severe influenza, also known as the flu.
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