Pascal Geldsetzer on the Link Between the Shingles Vaccine and Dementia

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Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford, joins The Future of Medicine to discuss a striking line of research: evidence that shingles vaccination may reduce the risk of dementia.Geldsetzer and his team study “natural experiments” — real-world situations that can allow researchers to get closer to determining cause and effect without conducting a traditional randomized clinical trial.

In the case of shingles vaccination, age-based eligibility rules created unusually comparable groups of people: those…

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Primary source: The Future of Medicine · September 20, 2026

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