{"id":10595,"date":"2025-10-22T13:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:57:52","slug":"shingles-vaccine-tied-to-drops-in-heart-disease-dementia-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/shingles-vaccine-tied-to-drops-in-heart-disease-dementia-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles Vaccine Tied to Drops in Heart Disease, Dementia, Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/idweek\/118018\">MedPageToday<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having herpes zoster (shingles) boosted the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but shingles vaccination reduced some risks for older adults, analyses presented at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/idweek\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"IDWeekopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IDWeekopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;annual meeting suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among more than 174,000 people with a mean age of 59, those who developed a herpes zoster infection were at greater risk of the following events within 5 years compared with controls catching a common cold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MACE (i.e., composite of myocardial infarction, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, or cardiac arrest): HR 1.20 (95% CI 1.14-1.26)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Myocardial infarction: HR 1.27 (95% CI 1.17-1.37)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ischemic stroke: HR 1.17 (95% CI 1.09-1.25)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Venous thromboembolism (VTE): HR 1.14 (95% CI 1.08-1.21)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All-cause dementia: HR 1.12 (95% CI 1.05-1.19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vascular dementia: HR 1.29 (95% CI 1.05-1.58)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mortality: HR 1.29 (95% CI 1.23-1.36)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Having herpes zoster (shingles) boosted the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but shingles vaccination reduced some risks for older adults, analyses presented at the&nbsp;IDWeekopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;annual meeting suggested. Among more than 174,000 people with a mean age of 59, those who developed a herpes zoster infection were at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10596,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}