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Even one flu shot may reduce your chance of getting Alzheimer's

This certainly is not a plus point for the anti-vaxx movement

27-Jul-2020

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One flu vaccination reduces the chance of getting Alzheimer’s disease by 17%.

Receiving more flu vaccines and getting vaccinated at a young age reduced the risk greatly.

Needs to find why and how the flu vaccine works to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

Sorted through many de-identified patient records to find drugs that could be repurposed.

Analysed more than 310,000 de-identified patient records to study this relationship.

Research by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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Albert Amran

Medical Student at The University of Texas Health Science Center

Paul E. Schulz

Professor of Neurology at UTHealth

UTHealth Houston

A graduate education university located in the Texas Medical Center

Xiaoqian Jiang

Associate Professor at School of Biomedical Informatics UTHealth at Houston

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Alzheimer's Disease