Flu Vaccination Linked to 40% Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
People who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease over the course of four years, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston.
Research led by first author Avram S. Bukhbinder, MD, a recent alumnus of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, and senior author Paul. E. Schulz, MD, the Rick McCord Professor in Neurology at McGovern Medical School, compared the risk of Alzheimer’s disease incidence between patients with and without prior flu vaccination in a large nationwide sample of U.S. adults aged 65 and older.
An early online version of the paper detailing the findings is available in advance of its publication in the Aug. 2 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
https://neurosciencenews.com/flu-vaccination-alzheimers-20909/
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Flu vaccines generally have adjuvants in them. Adjuvants, for those with an ApoE4 allele (the "Alzheimer's gene" ), can lead to brain damage and, thus, a greater likelihood of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. So flu vaccines are contraindicated for those with the "Alzheimer's gene."
This correlation between a person's receiving a flu vaccine and their chance of not being diagnosed with Alzheimer's looks like one of those spurious correlations.
There are all kinds of spurious correlations. For example, did you know that eating organic food causes autism?
Or that Mexican lemon imports prevent highway deaths?
And, most importantly, that it's a pirate shortage that's causing global warming?
We've been going about addressing climate change all wrong!
You know what they say, correlation does not equal causation.