Association between de Quervain syndrome and herpes zoster: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Both physical diseases such as infection and chronic pain and psychological disorders such as depression have been associated with herpes zoster (HZ) reactivation. However, the relationship between de Quervain syndrome (DQS), a painful tenosynovitis and HZ remains unclear. We investigated whether DQS increases the risk of HZ reactivation.

Design

A retrospective population-based cohort study.

Setting

Taiwan.

Participants

We used a subset of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database, the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database which contains the registration files and original claims data of 1 million randomly selected individuals from the National Health Insurance programme. The case group in this study comprised patients newly diagnosed with

SUBMITTER: Hsu CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8704966 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature