More Than One In Five Older Adults Hospitalized For RSV Infection Had An Acute Cardiac Event, Study Finds

MedPage Today (4/15, Minerd) reports, “More than one in five older adults hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection experienced an acute cardiac event, an observational study found.” Published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that out of “6,248 hospitalized patients 50 or older with laboratory-confirmed RSV infection, 22% experienced an acute cardiac event, most often acute heart failure (16%), reported researchers.”