Dr Mark Russell: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- clinical senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at King's College London
- Quoted on
- Heart disease & stroke
- Tracked press citations
- 4 (3 with a linkable article)
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Although the benefits are relatively small on an individual basis, millions of people receive shingles vaccination, meaning that even a small cardiovascular benefit could translate into a substantial number of cardiovascular events prevented at a population level. However, it is important to note that this is an observational study, not a randomised trial, and it cannot prove definitively that the recombinant vaccine caused the reduction in cardiovascular disease.”
What Dr Mark Russell has said
“This is a well-conducted study that uses a clever natural experiment to try to address one of the big problems with research into the benefits and risks of vaccinations. Namely, people who choose to be vaccinated are often different from those who do not, making it difficult to know whether differences in outcomes are due to the vaccine itself or other factors.”
clinical senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at King's College London · Heart disease & stroke · 29 Sept 2026 · Call to expand shingles vaccine following cardiovascular research ↗
“Although the benefits are relatively small on an individual basis, millions of people receive shingles vaccination, meaning that even a small cardiovascular benefit could translate into a substantial number of cardiovascular events prevented at a population level. However, it is important to note that this is an observational study, not a randomised trial, and it cannot prove definitively that the recombinant vaccine caused the reduction in cardiovascular disease.”
Clinical senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at King's College London · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · Shingles vaccine linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease ↗
Where Dr Mark Russell has been quoted
- Shingles vaccine linked to a lower risk of heart failure, stroke and heart diseasethepharmacist.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- Call to expand shingles vaccine following cardiovascular researchpharmaceutical-journal.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Shingles vaccine linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular diseasepulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
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