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Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination prevents a proportion of dementia cases (www.medrxiv.org)

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

We then show that receiving the herpes zoster vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis over a follow-up period of seven years by 3.5 percentage points (95% CI: 0.6 – 7.1, p=0.019), corresponding to a 19.9% relative reduction in the occurrence of dementia.

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