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Herpes Zoster and Risk of Incident Parkinson's Disease in US Veterans: A Matched Cohort Study

Tunnicliffe, Louis; Weil, Rimona S; Breuer, Judith; Rodriguez-Barradas, Maria C; Smeeth, Liam; Rentsch, Christopher T; Warren-Gash, Charlotte; (2024) Herpes Zoster and Risk of Incident Parkinson's Disease in US Veterans: A Matched Cohort Study. Movement Disorders 10.1002/mds.29701. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although some systemic infections are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), the relationship between herpes zoster (HZ) and PD is unclear. OBJECTIVE: The objective is to investigate whether HZ is associated with incident PD risk in a matched cohort study using data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. METHODS: We compared the risk of PD between individuals with incident HZ matched to up to five individuals without a history of HZ using Cox proportional hazards regression. In sensitivity analyses, we excluded early outcomes. RESULTS: Among 198,099 individuals with HZ and 976,660 matched individuals without HZ (median age 67.0 years (interquartile range [IQR 61.4-75.7]); 94% male; median follow-up 4.2 years [IQR 1.9-6.6]), HZ was not associated with an increased risk of incident PD overall (adjusted HR 0.95, 95% CI 0.90-1.01) or in any sensitivity analyses. CONCLUSION: We found no evidence that HZ was associated with increased risk of incident PD in this cohort. © 2024 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

Type: Article
Title: Herpes Zoster and Risk of Incident Parkinson's Disease in US Veterans: A Matched Cohort Study
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mds.29701
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.29701
Language: English
Additional information: © 2024 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Parkinson's disease, electronic health records, herpes zoster, matched cohort study
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186152
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