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Real-world database investigating the association between diabetes mellitus and herpes zoster in Taiwan.
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- Risk factors for herpes zoster infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis unveiling common trends and heterogeneity patterns.Infection · 2024Pooled it
- Clinical epidemiology and risk factors of herpes zoster in Türkiye: a decade-long, multicenter retrospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Investigating the association between hyperthyroidism and the risk of herpes zoster in a cohort study in Taiwan.BioMedicine · 2025Article
- A population-based study of social demographic factors, associated diseases, and herpes zoster ophthalmicus in Taiwan.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Association Between Coronary Artery Disease and Herpes Zoster: A Cohort Study in Taiwan.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- The risk of herpes zoster is positively associated with obesity, especially morbid obesity.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Burden of Herpes Zoster in Adult Patients with Underlying Conditions: Analysis of German Claims Data, 2007-2018.Dermatology and therapy · 2021Article
- Patterns of prescription, hospitalizations and costs of herpes zoster in patients at risk, from a large Italian claims database.Global & regional health technology assessmentArticle
- Radiotherapy Increases the Incidence of Herpes Zoster in Oral Cavity Cancer Patients - a National Population-based Cohort Study.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Article
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Abstract
Little evidence is available about the correlation between diabetes mellitus and herpes zoster in Taiwan. This study aimed to investigate the correlation between diabetes mellitus and herpes zoster in Taiwan.A population-based cohort study was conducted using the database of Taiwan National Health Insurance Program. There were 27,369 subjects aged 20 to 84 years with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus from 2000 to 2012 as the diabetes mellitus group and 107,705 sex- and age-matched subjects without diabetes mellitus as the nondiabetes mellitus group. The incidence of herpes zoster at the end of 2013 was estimated. The multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model was used to calculate the hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of herpes zoster associated with diabetes mellitus.The overall incidence of herpes zoster was 1.16-fold higher in the diabetes mellitus group than the nondiabetes mellitus group (7.85 vs 6.75 per 1000 person-years, 95% CI 1.12-1.20). After adjustment for co-variables, the adjusted HR of herpes zoster was 1.17 for subjects with diabetes mellitus (95% CI 1.10-1.23), compared with subjects without diabetes mellitus.Patients with diabetes mellitus are associated with 1.17-fold increased risk for developing herpes zoster.
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