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

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231 points cachecrab | 1 comments | 27 Jun 22 19:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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willcipriano ◴[27 Jun 22 20:21 UTC] No.31900253[source]▶
People who get yearly flu vaccines probably go to the doctor more regularly than those who do not. I would expect that people who more regularly go to the doctor are also more concerned about their health. I'd expect people who are concerned with their health to behave in ways that limit disease.

Without a proposed method of action, I suspect this is just noise.

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JumpCrisscross ◴[27 Jun 22 20:24 UTC] No.31900288[source]▶
The researchers controlled for "number of routine well visits during the look-back period, and total number of health care encounters during the look-back period (as a proxy for overall healthcare utilization rate)" [1].

[1] https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

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1. willcipriano ◴[27 Jun 22 21:08 UTC] No.31900817[source]▶
Thank you for the link. That's a interesting population, older people who regularly receive medical care but refuse flu vaccines. I wonder if that is representative of the general population.