Shingles And Stroke Connection

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Shingles and stroke connection. Shingles can increase risk for stroke potentially because of inflammation caused by the virus yang said. People who develop shingles have a 59 percent higher risk of heart attack than those who don t get the viral infection. Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. The preliminary research which will be presented next week at the american stroke association s international stroke conference in los angeles shows one type of shingles vaccination zoster vaccine live may prevent some older.

The study didn t prove that shingles causes a stroke. People with shingles are almost a third more likely to have a stroke in the next year according to the daily telegraph which reported research into stroke risk following shingles. Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox. That s according to a report published in the journal of the american college of cardiology which also claims there s a 35 percent higher risk of stroke for those who get shingles.

The shingles vaccine can do more than limit or prevent a painful rash it may save you from a stroke. A recent study in mayo clinic proceedings found people older than 50 have a 50 increased. Who had experienced the initial symptoms of shingles and had suffered a stroke for the first time. Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.

The report says the risks of both stroke and heart attack were highest the first year after. But new research. It only found an association between the viral infection and stroke risk. The newly published study included nearly 8 000 adults treated for shingles between 1997 and 2001 and about 23 000 people matched for age and sex who had no history of shingles or stroke before 2001.

The shingles vaccine protects against the infection caused by the chickenpox virus. The newspaper also says that people with a rare form of shingles affecting the eye were four times more likely to suffer from a stroke. Shingles vaccine may prevent stroke. Researchers examined 6 584 patients across 600 medical practices in the u k.