Seasonality of herpes zoster and herpes zoster ophthalmicus

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BACKGROUND: Herpes zoster (HZ) and herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) are common and debilitating diseases. There is no consensus in the literature whether HZ and HZO exhibit seasonal patterns.

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether HZ and HZO are seasonal.

STUDY DESIGN: All patients in the OptumLabs® Data Warehouse (OLDW), a longitudinal, insurance claims database with de-identified lives between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2017 with 365 days or more of continuous enrollment were considered in the study. The database was queried for patients reporting a new ICD-9/ICD-10 code for HZ or HZO and monthly counts of each administrative code were modeled using Morelet wavelets and analyzed for annual periodicity using Fisher's g test.

RESULTS: There were a total of 513,911 new cases of HZ during this time period; 40,166 cases (7.8 %) were reported as HZO. Administrative coding for new cases of HZ exhibited annual periodicity (P < .001) with a peak in the summer. No periodicity was evident for HZO.

CONCLUSIONS: These results contribute to a growing body of evidence suggesting that HZ may be seasonal and help characterize the epidemiology of this common, painful disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:126

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 126(2020) vom: 27. Mai, Seite 104306

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Berlinberg, Elyse J [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Deiner, Michael S [VerfasserIn]
Patterson, Casey [VerfasserIn]
Porco, Travis C [VerfasserIn]
Acharya, Nisha R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Epidemiology
Herpes zoster
Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Seasonality
Shingles
Wavelets

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Date Completed 28.05.2021

Date Revised 18.01.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104306

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307403041