Seniors who get the shingles vaccine may gain stroke protection as well, a new study suggests.
virus, according to the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. If you've had chickenpox, you face a significant risk for eventually developing shingles.
Nearly all Americans 40 and up carry the dormant chickenpox virus, or varicella-zoster virus. That, said Fonarow, means that"almost one in three adults in the U.S. will develop shingles at some point in their lifetime." However, Yang and his colleagues noted that overall shingles risk drops by about half with vaccination.
Given that most shingles patients are at least 50, the CDC recommends all adults 50 and older get the shingles vaccine. Yang's team concluded that vaccination also reduced the risk for clot-induced stroke by about 18%, while cutting the risk for a bleeding stroke by roughly 12%. Stroke protection was found to be particularly strong among patients between 66 and 79.According to Fonarow, the answer may have to do with"Prior studies have shown that adults developing shingles have a greater risk of heart attack and greater risk of stroke," Fonarow said.
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