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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.