2023-08-23 09:01:32
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Vaccination once morest pneumonia, shingles, and tetanus/diphtheria/(whooping cough) can reduce the risk of dementia by 25 to 30 percent, a study has found.
Health Day News reported on the 22nd that a research team led by Dr. Paul Schultz, a neurologist at the University of Texas Medical School in the United States, analyzed the medical records of 1.6 million people who received or did not get the basic vaccine for 8 years and found this fact.
They were over 65 years of age when the study began and had no dementia diagnosis when they looked back two years.
The research team analyzed whether their vaccination was associated with the risk of dementia.
As a result, it was found that those who received the tetanus/diphtheria vaccine or the vaccine with pertussis added to it had a 30% lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease than those who did not receive the vaccine.
The incidence of dementia was regarding 7.2% for those who received the vaccine and 10.2% for those who did not.
The shingles vaccine has been linked to a 25% reduction in the risk of dementia. The incidence of dementia was 8.1% for those who received the vaccine and 10.7% for those who did not.
Shingles occurs when the chickenpox virus, which you suffered as a child, remains dormant in certain nerve ganglia and is reactivated when the body becomes weak or the immune system is weakened.
Those who received the pneumonia vaccine had a 7.9% dementia incidence rate, 27% lower than the 10.9% of those who did not.
Last year, a study was published showing that those who received the flu vaccine had a 40% lower risk of dementia.
This suggests that vaccination can affect the immune system and help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, the research team speculated.
The study results were published in the online edition of the Alzheimer’s Journal.
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