People who develop the painful, blistering rash known as shingles may
be more susceptible to a heart attack, according to a study in the July
11, 2017, Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Also
known as herpes zoster, shingles results from a reactivation of the
virus that causes chickenpox, which most adults had during childhood.
Researchers relied on a Korean health database to identify people
newly diagnosed with shingles, stroke, or heart attack over 10 years.
Among the nearly 520,000 people they followed for that period, just over
23,000 were diagnosed with shingles, whom they compared with a similar
number of people without shingles. People who'd had shingles had a 59%
higher risk of later having a heart attack and a 35% higher risk of
having a stroke compared with people who did not have shingles. The risk
was highest during the first year after the onset of shingles and then
diminished over time.
About one in three people in the United States will develop shingles
at some point. The CDC recommends that most people ages 60 and older get
a shingles vaccine, even if you've had shingles before, since you can
get it more than once. The vaccine cuts the risk of shingles by half
.(Harvard Medical School)
A 43 year old Civil Defense Force officer was killed after colliding with a Cab vehicle while engaged in searching vehicles in Ambalanthota area on Colombo-Wellawaya road .
