Dementia Risk Drops (observed time before onset increases) With Shingrix Vaccine

[retiree]

Note that this was an observational study; the mechanism is not clear.  

Not clear how the benefit was distributed (i.e. mostly average, vs. some little, some folks much) -- have to wait for a more detailed report on the full article. 

 

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/dementia/111252

 

Dementia Risk Drops With Shingrix Vaccine

Key Takeaways

• The recombinant zoster vaccine (Shingrix) was associated with a 17% increase in time without a dementia diagnosis, compared with the live vaccine.
• This translated into 164 additional days without a dementia diagnosis.
• The findings support hypotheses about shingles vaccination and dementia prevention.

 

Taquet, M., Dercon, Q., Todd, J.A. et al. The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03201-5

 

There is a link to a preprint, but I couldn't get it to fully load:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03201-5.epdf?sharing_token=MzU7BhG2gmTGLXj4ijnrfdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MWVzS3OFxW79q3WomDJxB3y6xBCVUar8J1P4JKNdWXQue0SMFhuKV7_ywG5ahb5xmjguPbCEni3RzKZUbdflXePM8wtNcGqDF89ZFbTAxL6NItemE6s8T9cdQA1STBKPA%3D

 

[scubascuba3]

Usually these type of posts get deleted for some reason

[Sheryl]

6 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Usually these type of posts get deleted for some reason

 

"4. Posting/pinning of news articles: The forum is for members to seek advice on health/beauty related matters. it is not the place for general dissemination of news, research findings etc. Members are not to post news articles/research findings unless in the context of a discussion specific to an ASEAN NOW member's health/beauty related problem."

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/224498-health-forum-rules/#comment-5640297

 

Observational studies prove absolutely nothing about causation and it is very misleading to post these sorts of things.

 

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