Researchers exploit a natural experiment in Wales to isolate the vaccine’s protective effect against dementia.
Back in 2013, the government of Wales decided that it would begin providing the zoster vaccine to prevent shingles in adults ...
Stanford researchers found that adults who received the zoster vaccine for shingles have a lower risk of developing dementia.
The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of ...
New research suggests that the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of developing dementia. Here's what the study says and ...
Receipt of zoster vaccine reduces probability of new dementia diagnosis over seven-year period by 3.5 percentage points.
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A large natural experiment shows that the herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia diagnoses by 20% over seven years. The ...
A study of over 280,000 adults found that the shingles vaccine reduced dementia risk by 20%, with a stronger effect in women.
But at least from a medical perspective, it doesn't really matter. The vaccine is highly effective at preventing severe cases of shingles, and it seems to significantly reduce the frequency of ...