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A comment on 42% Lower Risk for Dementia Following Adult (Tdap) Vaccination.

Re:42% Lower Risk for Dementia Following Adult (Tdap) Vaccin... by ngrpls on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:28AM (#26923012)
Lower risk for dementia from having an active lifestyle that involves occasionally needing stitches, and being the type to go get them and also get a tetanus shot.

The idea that vaccines magically cure dementia for no particular reason is so absurb they should be embarrassed to publish this drivel. Basically everything indicative of intelligence, exercise, and health consciousness predicts lower dementia risk; it shouldn't be surprising that something associated with all of these seems correlated.

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Re:42% Lower Risk for Dementia Following Adult (Tdap) Vaccin... by stubish on Saturday April 24, 2021 @10:14PM (#26929812)
The abstract does not claim vaccines magically cure dementia. The abstract claims there is a correlation between vaccination and lower risk of dementia. The conclusion posits a rationale for this, which would need to be confirmed through further study. This further study could also help explain why other things such as exercise and health consciousness are also correlated with a lower dementia risk.
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