Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke
This could be huge, preventing hundreds of thousands of cases of heart disease and stroke.
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU29Also, a 20% reduction in the risk of dementia, apparently. Where can I get it!?
MadoE27Yes please. Shingles is such a horrible thing to have as well. Vaccines have improved our lives so much. It's hard to fathom why the "always wrong" brigade is so against them. Their loss.
Zee Zom11RFK will ban it soon.
Flaming June10It isn’t currently offered to everyone over 65 though. It will be eventually, but at the moment it’s being ‘rolled out’ and the criteria for eligibility is labyrinthine.
LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦9Thank you for getting the word out, Mark! And it helps against dementia as well. Huzzah! I saw this posted on Stanford U's site last year & got vaxxed. My nurses were unaware of it, but said they'd seen an uptick in younger people, in their 30s, requesting it. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...
La Reine des Metaphores8Makes me cross that because I had the earlier version of the vaccine they won't give me this one. And I got shingles twice anyway! Time to get assertive again....
Allison Marsh4Yes! Got mine last year. Science Matters.
Medium Dave3“If confirmed, this benefit would be comparable to taking a daily blood pressure-lowering medication, the scientists said.”
Greencray3Halt blöd, dass die Impfung für Menschen unter 60 Jahre, hier auch mal eben mit rund 600€ ins private Budget knallt 🙄
Barbánek Bodik aka Barbuchafella2Vakcína proti planým neštovicím snižuje riziko infarktu a mrtvice 👀
Cathie Wood2& helps prevent dementia. Definitely everyone should get the Shingrix vaccine. Should be more widely available for free as it's pricey.
Knitting Cat216 months to wait for it.
CaptKarnstein2Once again, vaccines are indeed miraculous.
Sue Cartwright2Yay for science and scientists.
Audrey2Yesssssss! I’m so glad I’m Shingrix vaccinated. It’s so helpful.
Inko Gneto2Got mine booked for next week
Did you all see this? Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds…have you had your shingles vax yet? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
blueeyes2.bsky.social16There was also a study that the shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia.
Laura Haynes👩🔬⚾️🐾💙12Here is the published manuscript www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deborah11You can be anti-vax all you want, but I’m telling you, shingles will humble your ass.
Lisa Prebenda7No, but I talked about getting it for several years. Kept putting it off. Days after returning from a trip to Malta last Sept I got shingles on my face. What a journey. Get your shingles vaccine!!
mainebogboy.bsky.social5I hadn’t seen! Good news. I’ll have to get one Laura! Jim😊
Ned Wilcox4There are many reasons to get the Shingrix vaccination. Folks neglecting to do so are fools. Unfortunately, insurance doesn't always pay if you are under 50 or 60. This needs to change. 
Tracen Academy Exciting Fruit Fest Attendee15btw if you are a millennial get your shingles vax before chicken pox reactivates from the stress of living in 2026 i have so many friends under 40 where this happened to them
whimsical 🥔9And dementia! Roll up your sleeve if you are over 50.
Xodanix36Haven't had it made available to me. But would love it considering I did get forcibly infected by chicken pox cuz of "chicken pox parties"
🇨🇦 Patrick Koppes 🇨🇦 Bring it!4Une autre raison pour vacciné les Québécois de plus de 50 ans! Le retour de l’investissement en vaut la peine!
Kindra Cotton3Those "Shingles Doesn't Care" commercials were very effective! 🫡
🏳️🌈🌎One planet, one people2Why yes I have 👍
Phil Hare's Ghost2No speculation as to the mechanism, I note. It would be interesting to compare the numbers with the efficacy of the two vaccines in question (preferably from the same data); that might at least offer a hint.
Celly is blue2I’ve had shingles. You bet I got vaccinated.
There’s already research connecting the Shingrix vaccine to a significantly reduced risk of dementia. Now it looks like it might also significantly reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes. NHS it at 65 in the UK but you can pay privately & get it from age 50 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Alex von Tunzelmann48Shingrix is not cheap privately - £500 for the two doses - but the evidence of its benefits is impressive and growing. Plus it protects you against shingles! Which is horrible. A great gift to yourself if you are 50+ & can afford it. I hope the NHS will start rolling it out younger.
Philip (He/Him) ♿16Also available for free for younger people after certain immunotherapy treatments. I had it last year following treatment for multiple sclerosis. It's worth checking with your GP if you've been through treatment for autoimmune conditions or cancer.
Thony Christie 3Having had shingles twice in my life, I had my shots, here in Germany, as soon as it came onto the market.
David Reynolds2But if you were already 65 on 1 September 2023 you have to wait until you’re 70 to get it on the NHS. If you weren’t, you can get it at 65. My brother is 3 years younger than me, but qualifies for the vaccine 2 years before me. Which seems a bit illogical.
Charlotte Houldcroft2White women in England are at a higher risk of shingles than other groups pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Being fit and active seems to increase your risk (erk!).
Lee Randall2That's encouraging. Had my second dose on Sunday and this makes me feel that a night of excruciating arm pain might have been worth it!
Fantastic news as data shows that shingles vaccine in older people is helping reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease! Shingles is reactivation of chickenpox so this data must also strengthen case for chicken pox vaccine in children (given with MMR as the MMRV vax)
Luke4Shingles is highly inflammatory, heart muscle cannot regenerate if it's damaged by inflammation so anything that reduces inflammation is going to show this effect. Aging is a war on inflammation.
shelagh9.bsky.social4Excellent news. NHS give you the shingles vaccine once you reach 65. Just two months to go 😁
demsrnottheanswer.bsky.social3Now if only theyd drop the age to get it. I got it twice at 39.
Mark Zec2My doc recommended getting the shingles vax even though I never had chicken pox. That was good enough for me. Got the MMR at the same time because I was old enough to have received the pre-MMR measles vax that may not have given lifelong immunity.
pamc84.bsky.social2Thank you for sharing 🍻
Amy Hoy50discovering how viruses are responsible for heart attack, stroke, cancer, alzheimers etc years to decades later is a true revolutionary medical breakthrough and i don’t think people appreciate
chadzia dax 🔞😷28also strengthening the evidence for why in general we shouldn’t let viruses take up residence in our bodies if we can prevent them via things like masking, vaccination, and clean air!
Dr Stylite9Does anyone know how the headline reduction of risk applies to the part of the cohort who would have already been at higher risk (ie hypertensive)!”?
Dr Vanessa9Ngl, gonna ask for the Shingrix vaccine as a 50th birthday present (it currently costs about £500 to get it privately, otherwise you have to wait until 65 for the NHS to provide it)
Valeria Rolla 5Vacina previne até doença cardiovascular
ambrosen3355 days and counting for me.
Not just guarding against shingles, not just decreasing the chance of dementia, but also lowering the risk of heart attack and stroke! Get vaccinated! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
LeftyBirdNerd 🌏✊🏳️🌈8I paid for mine as I was 3yrs off 65…. Hoping it’s the best $500 I’ve ever spent.
Le Mears3I had my second shot this week, knew about the dementia link, but the cardiovascular health is wonderful news!
Eleanor Irving1And keep getting your flu shots and COVID boosters!
Taco1Sucks you can’t get it until ur 50.
New from @science.org - a study of ~73,000 adults age 60+ found the shingles vaccine Shingrix was linked to a 9% lower cardiovascular disease burden over 7 yrs, adding to growing evidence it may help protect against heart disease and dementia as well as shingles
Chantzy10Link to paper 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Cool design: researchers compared people who received Shingrix with those who received an older shingles vaxx. This reduces bias. If you compare vaccinated with unvaccinated people, you're selecting for those who may be more health-conscious
N Inconnue1Have you seen any younger use data, Chantzy? My province restricts access to it based on age (even for people who get shingles earlier). I would love to get it ASAP since I am from the pre-vaccine age group and got chicken pox as a child and also have other risk factors, but they won't let me 😢
