Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination prevents a proportion of dementia cases | medRxiv https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.23.23290253v1 “We then show that receiving the #HerpesZosterVaccine 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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