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The newer shingles vaccine has been turning heads since its link to lower dementia rates was reported two years ago . Now the same research team behind that observation has found an association between receiving the Shingrix shot and a reduced risk of heart disease.
There have been signals before of cardiovascular benefits in people who got the newer, recombinant vaccine to prevent shingles, a painful, often serious flare-up in older people of the chickenpox virus from childhood. Those who got Shingrix were less likely than unvaccinated people to have heart attacks, strokes, or heart failure.
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