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Get a flu shot if you’ve got heart disease

While no one wants to get hit with the flu—or the coughing, fever, and chills that go along with it—it’s extra important to get a flu shot if you have heart disease. A recent British study, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, found that when someone with existing heart disease comes down with the flu, her risk of suffering a heart attack increases by 50 percent.