Once a year! Reduce the risk of dementia! What's so great about it?

Dementia can be roughly divided into three categories: degenerative dementia, vascular dementia, and dementia caused by other causes; among the three categories, degenerative dementia is the most common , under which the following three subtypes are the main categories: Alzheimer`s Disease, Frontotemporal lobe degeneration, Dementia with Lewy bodies Bodies).

No matter what kind of dementia, once suffering from it, it will greatly reduce the quality of life of the patient, and also affect the family members around him, so the prevention of dementia is particularly important. What is exciting is that in recent years, studies have begun to discover an interesting phenomenon-“People who get the flu vaccine have a lower risk of dementia!". exist2016,2020, Taiwan's excellent research team published two papers, pointing out that for patients with chronic kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, influenza vaccination will significantly reduce the risk of dementia! In 2021, a research team in the United States will also publishpaper, conducted a follow-up study on veterans, and found a similar situation: Compared with patients who had not received any influenza vaccine, the elderly who had received influenza vaccine had a significantly lower risk of dementia, and the higher the number of doses administered, the higher the risk of dementia. High, the downward trend in dementia risk appears to have a slight dose-response relationship.

With more and more related research, in 2022, published in "Aging Research Reviews"paper, which conducted a systematic literature review and comprehensive analysis of several existing studies, including data from 9 papers, a total of 292,157 seniors, inAfter adjusting for confounding factors, the effect of flu vaccination on reducing the risk of dementia remains significant. Although the number of research papers actually included in this meta-analysis is not large, the overall number of accepted cases has reached hundreds of thousands, and the original papers belong to generational research, which has great reference significance.

To sum up, the side effects of influenza vaccination are generally not strong. If it can not only reduce the severe mortality rate after suffering from influenza, but also significantly reduce the risk of dementia in the elderly, from the author's point of view, this is An excellent form of preventive medicine! In addition, the author will also recommend that the elderly take the injection every year to enhance its preventive effect. In addition, in the part of special nutrition intervention, it is recommended to refer topast articles, Appropriately give supplements to the elderly.

〈The author is former Attending Physician in National Taiwan University Hospital, and Master of Science from National Taiwan University〉