{"id":141309,"date":"2022-06-28T20:20:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/weirdly-it-appears-the-flu-vaccine-may-protect-against-alzheimers"},"modified":"2022-06-28T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:20:26","slug":"weirdly-it-appears-the-flu-vaccine-may-protect-against-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/weirdly-it-appears-the-flu-vaccine-may-protect-against-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Weirdly, It Appears the Flu Vaccine May Protect Against Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weirdly-it-appears-the-flu-vaccine-may-protect-against-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a surprise finding, researchers have found that getting at least one flu shot makes it 40 percent less likely for people over the age of 65 to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, up to four years later.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s still far too early to determine if there are any direct causal links between the common vaccine and neurological health outcomes like Alzheimer\u2019s \u2014 in other words, we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the flu vaccine itself or something else responsible for the results \u2014 the research is certainly an eyebrow-raising new development that could, potentially, point in the direction of easily accessible treatments.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/content.iospress.com\/articles\/journal-of-alzheimers-disease\/jad220361#S1\" class=\"\">peer-reviewed study<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em><em>,<\/em> researchers at UTHealth Houston compared the incidence rate of the disease in patients with and without at least one flu vaccination in a nationwide sample of US adults aged 65 and up, which included 935,887 vaccinated and 935,887 non-vaccinated individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise finding, researchers have found that getting at least one flu shot makes it 40 percent less likely for people over the age of 65 to be diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, up to four years later. While it\u2019s still far too early to determine if there are any direct causal links between the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}