{"id":2545,"date":"2025-05-06T15:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/shingles-vaccine-lowers-heart-attack-and-stroke-danger\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:06:58","slug":"shingles-vaccine-lowers-heart-attack-and-stroke-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/shingles-vaccine-lowers-heart-attack-and-stroke-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles vaccine lowers heart attack and stroke danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-06 15:06:58<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of a heart attack or stroke for up to eight years.<BR><br \/>\nThose given a jab to protect themselves against the painful rash illness had a 23 per cent lower risk of potentially fatal cardiovascular events.<BR><br \/>\nThe protective effect was particularly noticeable in men, people under the age of 60 and those with poor health habits such as smoking.<BR><br \/>\nIt was at its most prominent in the first two years after the injection but the impact lasted up to eight years afterwards.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Dong Keon Yon, study leader at Kyung Hee University College of Medicine in South Korea, said: &#8220;There are several reasons why the shingles vaccine may help reduce heart disease.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;A shingles infection can cause blood vessel damage, inflammation and clot formation that can lead to heart disease.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;By preventing shingles, vaccination may lower these risks.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, as this study is based on an Asian cohort, the results may not apply to all populations.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies following a healthy general population over a period of up to 12 years.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-06 15:06:58 The shingles vaccine reduces the risk of a heart attack or stroke for up to eight years. Those given a jab to protect themselves against the painful rash&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}