Influenza-associated mortality for different causes of death during the 2010-2011 through the 2014-2015 influenza seasons in Russia
Edward Goldstein

TL;DR
This study estimates the influenza-associated mortality in Russia from 2010 to 2015, highlighting significant impacts on circulatory and respiratory causes, and underscores the importance of vaccination and antiviral strategies.
Contribution
It applies a regression methodology to quantify influenza-related deaths in Russia, providing detailed cause-specific mortality estimates for multiple influenza seasons.
Findings
Influenza caused approximately 11,106 circulatory deaths annually.
Respiratory deaths linked to influenza averaged 4,552 per year.
Influenza B significantly contributed to circulatory mortality.
Abstract
Background: There is limited information on the volume of influenza-associated mortality in Russia. Methods: Using previously developed methodology (Goldstein et al., Epidemiology 2012), we regressed the monthly rates of mortality for respiratory causes, circulatory causes, and for certain infectious and parasitic diseases (available from the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat)) linearly against the monthly proxies for the incidence of influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1 and B (obtained using data from the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza (RII) on levels of ILI/ARI consultations and the percent of respiratory specimens testing positive for influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1 and B), adjusting for the baseline rates of mortality not associated with influenza circulation and temporal trends. Results: For the 2010/11 through the 2014/15 seasons, influenza circulation was…
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