Shingles Vaccine May Lower Heart Disease Risk, Researchers Say

Shingles vaccine may lower heart disease risk, researchers say

Researchers say the shingles vaccine may offer an unexpected benefit: a lower risk of heart disease.

Could the shingles vaccine decrease risk of heart attack, stroke, and even dementia?

About one in three adults who grew up before the chickenpox vaccine era (which started around year 2000) will have a shingles episode at some point in their life. Shingles is excruciatingly painful (often described as worse than giving birth or having kidney stones), with a list of risk of complications and longterm pain that […]