The effect of herpes zoster vaccination on the occurrence of deaths due to dementia in England and Wales
Felix Michalik, Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Simon Hess, Seunghun Chung, Pascal Geldsetzer · 2025
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Felix Michalik and co-authors studied whether a shingles vaccine can lower deaths from dementia, in a 2025 paper on England and Wales. A rule based on birth date created a natural experiment: adults just too old at the program start could never get the free vaccine, while slightly younger adults could. People on each side of that line should otherwise be much alike.
The team used death certificate data for more than five million adults over a nine year follow up. They compared the share of each birth group whose death was due to dementia, on either side of the cut off date. Their estimate was that being eligible for the vaccine lowered that share. The study builds on earlier Welsh record work that tied the same vaccine to fewer new dementia cases over seven years.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Felix Michalik, Min Xie, Markus Eyting, Simon Hess, Seunghun Chung, Pascal Geldsetzer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |