The pneumonia vaccine can also protect against mental illness

Houston: A new study has revealed that shots for shingles (a skin disease) and pneumonia may help older people fight Alzheimer’s disease.

According to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, the shingles vaccine, the pneumonia vaccine or the tetanus and diphtheria vaccine were associated with a 25 percent to 30 percent reduction in Alzheimer’s disease.

The research follows research published last year that found people who had at least one flu shot were 40 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than unvaccinated people. were less.

Dr. Paul Schulz, a professor of neurology at the University and senior author of the study, said researchers thought it was specific to the flu vaccine. Data from this study suggest that multiple vaccines given to older adults are associated with a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s.

For the study, researchers reviewed the medical records of 1.6 million patients. These individuals included both patients who had received routine vaccinations at an older age and those who had not.

Patients did not have dementia during the two-year look-back period and were at least 65 years old at the start of the eight-year study.

According to research, people who got vaccinated against tetanus and diphtheria were 30 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s than those who didn’t get vaccinated. The rate of Alzheimer’s among the vaccinated was about 7 percent, compared to 10 percent among the unvaccinated.

The shingles vaccine was associated with a 25 percent reduction in Alzheimer’s disease (8 percent of Alzheimer’s among vaccinated versus 11 percent among unvaccinated). The pneumonia vaccine was associated with a 27 percent reduction (8 percent of Alzheimer’s among vaccinated versus 10 percent among unvaccinated).