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Letter to the editor regarding “The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia”

The objective of the study was to evaluate the role of age and sex and their combined effect in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) in a large population-based study, in order to confirm the results published previously by Amicizia et al. Data were extracted from population and healthca...

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Autores principales: Muñoz-Quiles, Cintia, López-Lacort, Mónica, Orrico-Sánchez, Alejandro, Díez-Domingo, Javier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29244612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1417715
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author Muñoz-Quiles, Cintia
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description The objective of the study was to evaluate the role of age and sex and their combined effect in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) in a large population-based study, in order to confirm the results published previously by Amicizia et al. Data were extracted from population and healthcare databases from the Valencia Region (2009–2014). Logistic regressions were implemented to estimate the effect of increasing age on the probability of developing PHN stratified by sex. From a cohort of 2,289,485 subjects ≥ 50 years, 87,086 cases of HZ were registered and 13,658 (15.7%) of them developed PHN. In our population, PHN cases were more common in women and rose with increasing age independently of the sex.
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spelling pubmed-58932062018-04-13 Letter to the editor regarding “The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia” Muñoz-Quiles, Cintia López-Lacort, Mónica Orrico-Sánchez, Alejandro Díez-Domingo, Javier Hum Vaccin Immunother Letter The objective of the study was to evaluate the role of age and sex and their combined effect in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) in a large population-based study, in order to confirm the results published previously by Amicizia et al. Data were extracted from population and healthcare databases from the Valencia Region (2009–2014). Logistic regressions were implemented to estimate the effect of increasing age on the probability of developing PHN stratified by sex. From a cohort of 2,289,485 subjects ≥ 50 years, 87,086 cases of HZ were registered and 13,658 (15.7%) of them developed PHN. In our population, PHN cases were more common in women and rose with increasing age independently of the sex. Taylor & Francis 2018-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5893206/ /pubmed/29244612 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1417715 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Orrico-Sánchez, Alejandro
Díez-Domingo, Javier
Letter to the editor regarding “The role of age-sex interaction in the development of post-herpetic neuralgia”
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29244612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2017.1417715
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