2023-06-05 07:39:00
In the past in Wales, entitlement to a Vaccination against shingles from date of birth. Persons born before September 2, 1933 were excluded. However, Welsh people born after this date were eligible to be vaccinated.
In a study, these circumstances offered the ideal research conditionsto study the link between dementia and shingles vaccines. Researchers from the Universities of Heidelberg, Mainz and Vienna came together for this. Researchers from Stanford University in California also took part.
With a number of test subjects of over 290,000 people and Data They discovered striking causal relationships through vaccinations, medical examinations and death certificates. A diagnosis of dementia was reduced by 19.9 percent with a shingles vaccination over the following seven years. And the vaccine was significantly more effective in women than their male contemporaries.
The conclusion of the researchers: “Our results strongly indicate an important role of the varicella-zoster virus in the development of dementia”.
According to “Focus”, the test results have not yet been checked by a specialist board. Nevertheless, they allow a positive outlook on the future of dementia research.
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