CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Understanding Risk Factors for Severe RSV Disease

Episode Summary

Listen as Angela Branche, MD, FIDSA, discusses RSV disease burden, symptoms and complications of RSV infection, and risk factors for severe RSV disease.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Angela Branche, MD, FIDSA, explores the burden of RSV disease in older adults, including:

• RSV seasonality and disease burden
• Symptoms and complications of RSV infection
• Older age as a key risk factor for severe RSV disease and complications (eg, pneumonia, hospitalization)
• Comorbidities associated with increased risk of RSV hospitalization
• RSV hospitalization rates among different racial and ethnic minority groups and socioeconomic statuses 

Faculty:
Angela Branche, MD, FIDSA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

Content based on a CME program supported by an educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.

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