Heart Disease, Stroke, or Other Cardiovascular Disease and Adult Vaccination

Vaccines are especially critical for people with health conditions such as heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular disease.

If you have heart disease, stroke, or other cardiovascular disease, talk with your doctor about:

Influenza vaccine each year to protect against seasonal flu
Tdap vaccine to protect against whooping cough and tetanus
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine to protect against pneumonia and other pneumococcal disease
Zoster vaccine to protect against shingles if you are 60 years and older
HPV vaccine series to protect against human papillomavirus if you are a woman up to age 26 and a man up to age 21
MMR vaccine to protect against measles, mumps, and rubella if you were born in 1957 or after and have not gotten this vaccine or have immunity to these diseases
Varicella vaccine to protect against chickenpox if you were born in 1980 or after and have not gotten two doses of this vaccine or have immunity to this disease