If you're 65 or older, getting the newer shingles shot (recombinant vaccine) cuts your chance of getting shingles by about a third over six years compared to the older shot, and it works just as well for men and women.

A newer shingles shot works better than the old one at preventing shingles, and people who get the newer shot also seem less likely to get dementia—maybe because both problems are linked in some way inside the body.

Getting the shingles vaccine lowers your chances of getting shingles by about 37% over seven years — that means if 100 people get the vaccine, roughly 2 or 3 fewer will get shingles compared to those who didn’t.

Getting the shingles vaccine can lower your chances of getting shingles by about 2.3 out of every 100 people over seven years — and this matches what earlier big studies found, so the method used in this study seems reliable.

People who received the shingles vaccine had a lower rate of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious heart problems over eight years compared to those who did not.

Two different shingles vaccines, Shingrix and Zostavax, are linked to similar levels of reduction in the risk of cardiovascular events.