Influenza-Related Deaths in the Czech Republic Over 21 Seasons

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378289:_____/25:00635688 RIV/60460709:41330/25:105981 RIV/75010330:_____/25:00014932 RIV/00216208:11120/25:43928192

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.70072" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.70072</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.70072" target="_blank" >10.1111/irv.70072</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Influenza-Related Deaths in the Czech Republic Over 21 Seasons

Original language description

BACKGROUND: Influenza is a relatively serious infection that causes considerable morbidity and mortality. Epidemics of influenza are reported almost every year. METHODS: Based on the Czech national all-cause mortality and acute respiratory infection/influenza-like illness surveillance data for the 1999/2000 to 2019/2020 influenza seasons, excess deaths attributable to influenza were estimated using the threshold derived as 90th percentile of death counts during nonepidemic periods. Daily death counts broken by the 5-year age intervals were modelled via Poisson generalised additive model. RESULTS: The estimated total number of excess deaths from influenza during study period was 22,306. Thus, the mean total of excess deaths related to influenza per season was 1062 for the age group 40–94 years. The total number of excess deaths increased steadily with age from the 40–44 age group to the 85–89 age group, which accounted for the highest percentage of excess deaths (17%), followed closely by the 80–84 age group (16%). The age groups 40–44 years and 45–49 years contributed the least (3% each). More than three quarters of excess deaths occurred at age 65 and over (17,027 cases, 76%). Relative numbers of excess deaths per 100,000 population peaked in the oldest age groups of 85–89 and 90–94 years. CONCLUSIONS: We estimate that at least 0.98% of all-cause mortality throughout the study period was attributable to influenza in the Czech Republic. This excess is not negligible, and public health actions in the field of influenza prevention are vitally needed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-24920S" target="_blank" >GA22-24920S: Links between weather, epidemics and seasonal mortality patterns</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

ISSN

1750-2640

e-ISSN

1750-2659

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

e70072

UT code for WoS article

001438537800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-86000288582