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Study suggests shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk (www.brown.edu)

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[-] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

As my doctor said when she said I should get the vaccine: If this study is true, it's great it great, but even if this study turns out to be false, it doesn't matter because I should get the vaccine anyway.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

There are half a dozen studies with the same conclusions. The best was in UK, where because of some stupid rule, people born a week later could not get Shingrex, so they ended up with a huge control population. Interestingly, the protective effect is only seen in women.

But other studies show protection effects from all vaccines in elderly.