Your Flu Vaccination May Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease by 40%, Study Shows
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During four-year follow-up appointments, 8.5% of non-vaccinated patients had developed Alzheimer’s disease. Meanwhile, only about 5.1% of flu-vaccinated patients were found to have developed Alzheimer’s disease. “Since there is evidence that several vaccines may protect from Alzheimer’s disease, we are thinking that it isn’t a specific effect of the flu vaccine,” Dr. Schulz said in the press release. Past studies have found a decreased risk of dementia also associated with prior exposure to various vaccinations, including those for tetanus, polio, and herpes, just to name a few.and longer follow-up data becomes available, Dr.
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