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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Shingrix vaccine with those who got vaccinated against the flu and the combination of diptheria-pertussis-tetanus. The risk of dementia in those who got a Shingrix shot was 23% lower than in people who got a flu shot and 28% lower in people who got a tDAP vaccine, further supporting the idea that there’s something unique about being vaccinated for shingles that’s lowering dementia risk. “It will be critical to study this apparent effect further,” said Dr. Sheona Scales, director of research at Alzheimer’s Research UK, in written comments. “While research into whether vaccines affect dementia risk continues, people should be aware that there are other factors that have definitively been linked to an increased dementia risk. These include things like smoking, high blood pressure and excessive alcohol consumption,” Scales added. And controlling those can make a difference in brain health, too. A second study, which is scheduled to be presented Tuesday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, uses a similar approach as the Oxford study, and its conclusions mirror those findings. It was sponsored by GSK, which issued a news release describing the results. The full study has not yet been peer-reviewed by outside experts or published in a medical journal. This research also makes use of another large database of electronic health records, which is owned by the health care company Optum. By mining the data on nearly 600,000 patients, researchers were able to compare the diagnosis of dementia in people 50 and older who were vaccinated against shingles
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