The phrase "attributable to flu" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing causes or reasons for a particular condition or situation, specifically relating to the flu.
Example: "The increase in hospital admissions this winter is largely attributable to flu outbreaks in the community."
Alternatives: "due to the flu" or "caused by the flu".
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07361.002 Seasonal influenza viruses infect up to 15% of the world's human population annually, with the majority of flu cases attributable to influenza type A subtype H3N2 (A/H3N2) (World Health Organization, 2014).
However, Simonsen et al. (11, 12, 20) found that excess mortality attributable to influenza has only been 5%10%% on average during flu seasons in the past several decades.
We combined data from Flu-VE RT-PCRs, influenza test results obtained clinically in the surveillance emergency departments, and HDDS discharge diagnoses to calculate age-specific visit rates attributable to influenza A(H1N1 pdm09.
No congenital birth defect, nor early-onset neonatal influenza infection was attributable to pdm flu exposure.
Influenza surveillance information on the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is available, but almost no studies attempted to estimate the total number of deaths attributable to H1N1 flu.
The annual direct medical costs attributable to the flu in the U.S. average $10.4 billion annually, and the projected lost earnings due to illness and loss of life amount to $16.3 billion.
After careful exclusion of alternative causes, none miscarriage or stillbirth was attributable to pdm flu.
Matthew A. Baum, the Harvard scholar who wrote the journal article, told me that he couldn't calculate how many of the total flu deaths were attributable to conservatives putting too much faith in their pundits.
Out of the 251 women of ante partum onset (126 with pdm flu and 125 with non pdm ILI), none of the six confirmed pdm flu assessed by serum RT-PCR had detectable viremia, irrespective of the time of ILI from mid- to late pregnancy, precluding the possibility that severe third-trimester flu could be attributable to viremia.
For instance, age-difference may be attributable to the awareness that the elderly are more susceptible to flu or pneumococcal disease [ 51] and hypertension [ 25], whereas early diagnosis of breast cancer has an attributable best benefit for younger groups [ 29].
