non-infection related benefits of vaccines
In these times of anti-science promoted by the head of the Office of Health and Human Services (RFK, Jr), I thought it was important to bring up a few studies reinforcing the non-infection-related benefits of vaccines, beyond their well-documented specific infectious disease benefits. A recent very large observational South Korean study found that live zoster vaccination was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events for at least the next eight years (see zoster vaccine dec cardiovasc outcome EurSocCardiol2025 in dropbox or https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf230 ) Details : -- this nationwide, population-based cohort data-mining study included 2,207,784 individuals encompassing 98% of the South Korean population, compared individuals who had versus didn’t have live zoster vaccine but subsequently had herpes zoster (HZ) infection -- data were collected from a combination of the national insurance information (outpat...