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Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

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231 points cachecrab | 2 comments | 27 Jun 22 19:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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wonderwonder ◴[27 Jun 22 20:20 UTC] No.31900239[source]▶
Never gotten the flu vaccine before. Biggest fear in life is alzheimers. Guess I will get the flu vaccine annually going forward.
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1. seydor ◴[27 Jun 22 20:39 UTC] No.31900480[source]▶
Participants in the study were on average 75 years old.
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2. wonderwonder ◴[27 Jun 22 21:10 UTC] No.31900850[source]▶
My family has an unfortunate history of not living past 65, so may as well start now :)