Associations of head and neck cancers with herpes zoster in the preceding five years

Autor:	Chao-Hung Chen, Sudha Xirasagar, Shih-Han Hung, Herng-Ching Lin, Chin-Shyan Chen
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Head and neck cancer Herpes zoster Epidemiology Medicine Science
Zdroj:	Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2024)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2045-2322
DOI:	10.1038/s41598-024-72893-z
Popis:	Abstract This population-based study investigated the risk of having had prior herpes zoster within five years preceding a diagnosis of head and neck cancer. We conducted a case-control study that included 9,191 patients with a diagnosis of head and neck cancer in Taiwan’s Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2010 and 36,764 matched controls. We assessed the odds of patients with head and neck cancer having had a diagnosis of herpes zoster during the five years preceding head and neck cancer using multiple logistic regression analysis. The prevalence of prior herpes zoster among the total sample was 4.6%, 7.9% and 3.8% among patients with and without head and neck cancer, respectively (p
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