"this vaccination is associated with a significantly lower risk of dementia later in life"
But this new paper makes finding such links a matter of even greater importance. The authors show that this same vaccine is associated with a 9% decrease in cardiovascular disease endpoints over the next seven years. Specifically, disease burden was lower for ischemic heart disease, for heart failure, and for atrial fibrillation, and in male patients it showed a lower burder for ischemic stroke. This study involved over 36,000 patients who received the recombinant vaccine in 2018 and a similar 36,000 who received the older live-attenuated vaccine in 2017. That’s a pretty solid natural-experiment control. The comparison between the two types of shingles vaccine is even more impressive when you consider that the earlier vaccine itself had been linked in similar analyses to cardioprotective effects all its own.
"this vaccination is associated with a significantly lower risk of dementia later in life"
But this new paper makes finding such links a matter of even greater importance. The authors show that this same vaccine is associated with a 9% decrease in cardiovascular disease endpoints over the next seven years. Specifically, disease burden was lower for ischemic heart disease, for heart failure, and for atrial fibrillation, and in male patients it showed a lower burder for ischemic stroke. This study involved over 36,000 patients who received the recombinant vaccine in 2018 and a similar 36,000 who received the older live-attenuated vaccine in 2017. That’s a pretty solid natural-experiment control. The comparison between the two types of shingles vaccine is even more impressive when you consider that the earlier vaccine itself had been linked in similar analyses to cardioprotective effects all its own.
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