Herpes Zoster Is Associated with Prior Statin Use: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

Shiu-Dong Chung, Ming-Chieh Tsai, Shih-Ping Liu, Herng-Ching Lin and Jiunn-Horng Kang

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 10, 1-4

Abstract: Background: This study investigated the association between statin use and herpes zoster (HZ) occurrence in a population-based case-control study. Methods: Study subjects were retrieved from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000. This study included 47,359 cases with HZ and 142,077 controls. We performed conditional logistic regression analyses to calculate the odds ratio (OR) to present the association between HZ and having previously been prescribed statin. Results: We found that 13.0% of the sampled subjects had used statins, at 15.5% and 12.1% for cases and controls, respectively (p

Date: 2014
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