US EditionShingles vaccination associated with delayed dementia onset in older adults
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Shingles vaccination associated with delayed dementia onset in older adults
Every three seconds, someone, somewhere in the world, develops dementia. The number of people living with the condition is projected to rise dramatically, doubling from 78 million in 2020 to 139 million by 2050, making dementia an urgent public health concern of our time. Now, a Canadian study published in The Lancet Neurology found that herpes zoster vaccination, known by the brand name Zostavax, reduced or delayed dementia diagnosis by 2 perce…
This injection protects against herpes zoster and could also be beneficial to the brain and heart. By Meeri Kim It is very likely that, if you were born before 1980, you have had chickenpox at some point. Nowadays, this highly contagious disease is rare in the United States thanks to the efficacy of [...]
Scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) conducted a study that revealed that the benefits of herpes zoster vaccine are not reduced to protecting against that disease, but is also associated with slowing biological aging in older people. In fact, research suggests that this benefit could be sustained even several years after immunization, according to the report published in the Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sc…
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