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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2015 Mar 30;33(20):2322–2327. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.03.050

Table 2.

Percentage of parents who reported their children are at high-risk of complications from influenza, by condition.

Diagnosis Parental perception of condition as high risk(%)
Neurologic/neurodevelopmental
 Intellectual disability 54
 Epilepsy 64
 Cerebral palsy 72
 Stroke 53
 Spinal cord 49
 Other brain conditions 59
Respiratory
 Asthma 75
 Bronchopulmonary dysplasia 83
 Other chronic lung disease 82
Hematologic/oncologic
 Cancer 56
 Other blood 58
 Sickle cell disease 56
Other
 Genetic 70
 Prematurity 72
 Weakened immune 69
 Metabolic 52
 Heart 77
 Endocrine 72
 Obesity 53
 Musculoskeletal 67
 Kidney 62
 Liver 63
 Chronic aspirin use 65