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A newer shingles vaccine has been linked to reduced rates of heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure in research the study team describes as a natural experiment, meaning it draws on real-world vaccination patterns rather than randomly assigning people to receive the shot.
The finding comes from the same research team that reported a connection between Shingrix and lower dementia rates two years ago, and it adds to earlier signals of cardiovascular benefit from the shot.
Shingles is a painful, often serious flare-up of the chickenpox virus from childhood in older adults.
Shingrix is a recombinant vaccine, which means it uses a protein piece of the virus to train the immune system rather than a weakened live form of the pathogen.
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