Routine vaccinations found to be as effective as anti-amyloid medications for the prevention of Alzheimer's Disease
found a similar protective benefit from a regular annual flu shot. Patients who received annual flu shots were 40% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than patients who didn’t get flu shots, the researchers found.Paul Schulz told the online medical magazine Verywell
“When we look under the microscope, we see activated immune cells around every plaque,” Schulz said in the 2022 article. To put these results into context, three new antibody-based anti-amyloid drugs used to treat Alzheimer’s have shown they slow disease progression at the same rate as vaccines, which are, better studied, more easily administered and significantly less expensive.
The study was performed by comparing the health and vaccination data from large medical databases, and the authors say it underscores the value that these large datasets of health information play in research, as well as the importance of routine vaccinations to overall health.
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