Types of Shingles:
Broader types of Shingles:
Incidence (annual) of Shingles: 500,000 cases (NIAID)
Incidence Rate of Shingles: approx 1 in 544 or 0.18% or 500,000 people in USA [about data]
Lifetime risk of Shingles:
2 in 10 lifetime (NIAID)
Prevalance of Shingles:
This
year, more than 500,000 people will develop shingles. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Shingles (Varicella-Zoster Virus): NIAID)
Patient Profile for Shingles: Usually elderly, but can affect any age. Also the immunosuppressed.
Prognosis of Shingles: Usually self-limiting, but can be dangerous or even fatal in the immunocompromised.
Complications of Shingles:
see complications of Shingles
Prognosis of Shingles:
Although shingles can be very painful and itchy, it is
not generally dangerous to healthy individuals and it usually resolves
without complications. The rash and pain usually go away within 3 to 5
weeks.
(Source: excerpt from NINDS Shingles Information Page: NINDS)
Causes of Shingles: see causes of Shingles
Cause of Shingles: Reinfection with the varicella (chicken pox) virus, usually from many years or decades earlier.
Risk factors for Shingles:
see
risk factors for Shingles
Symptoms of Shingles: see symptoms of Shingles
Complications of Shingles: see complications of Shingles
Contagion of Shingles: Patients with shingles are contagious in that they can infect others with chicken pox, but not with shingles!
More information:
see contagiousness of Shingles
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Shingles.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Shingles.
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Shingles: General practitioner, Primary care physician, Infectious disease specialist, Ophthalmologist, Neurologist, Psychologist, Gynaecologist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Shingles.
Treatments for Shingles:
see treatments for Shingles
Prevention of Shingles:
see prevention of Shingles
Research for Shingles:
see research for Shingles
Hospitalization statistics for Shingles:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Shingles:
Main name of condition: Shingles
Class of Condition for Shingles: viral
Herpes zoster, zona, zoster, acute posterior ganglionitis
Herpes zoster
Source - Diseases Database
Zoster, Shingles, Herpes zoster, Zoster, Zone, Herpes zoster, Shingles
Source - WordNet 2.1
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