An episode of herpes zoster is associated with an increased risk of anterior uveitis in the following year, according to a Taiwanese report this month in Archives of Ophthalmology. Researches note that various systemic diseases have been associated with uveitis but few studies have looked at the connection with herpes zoster. For their current investigation, the team identified 314,405 patients diagnosed with herpes zoster in Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database and compared them to 943,215 randomly selected controls without shingles.
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