Study Findings from National Police Hospital Advance Knowledge in Sensorineural Hearing Loss (Effect of Herpes Zoster Treatment and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Using National Health Insurance Claims Data of South Korea): Hearing Diseases and Conditions – Sensorineural Hearing Loss

2023 MAY 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Investigators publish new report on sensorineural hearing loss. According to news originating from Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Herpes zoster (HZ) is caused by the reactivation of a pre-existing latent varicella zoster virus, which is one of the viruses that causes hearing loss, and hearing loss may occur due to a systemic immune response even if it does not invade the auditory nerve.”

Funders for this research include Korean Society of Geriatric Anesthesia And Pain.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from National Police Hospital: “This study aimed to determine the correlation between sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) in older adult patients who received HZ treatment. We used the cohort data of patients aged 60 years and above (n = 624,646) between 2002 and 2015 provided by the National Health Insurance Service. The patients were divided into two groups: those who were diagnosed with HZ between 2003 and 2008 (group H, n = 36,121) and those who had not been diagnosed with HZ between 2002 and 2015 (group C, n = 584,329). In the main model (adjusted HR = 0.890, 95% CI = 0.839-0.944, p < 0.001) adjusted for sex, age, and income, and the full model (adjusted HR = 0.894, 95% CI = 0.843-0.949, p < 0.001) adjusted for all comorbidities, group H had a lower risk of SSNHL than group C.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This study showed that patients who received HZ treatment had a lower incidence of SSNHL within five years after diagnosis.”

For more information on this research see: Effect of Herpes Zoster Treatment and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Using National Health Insurance Claims Data of South Korea. Medicina, 2023,59(4). (Medicina - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina). The publisher for Medicina is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59040808.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hyo Jung Son, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, National Police Hospital, Seoul 05715, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Eun-Ji Choi, Ukjin Jeong, Yoon Ji Choi.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Hyo Jung Son (http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7710-7605), Eun-Ji Choi (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3731-0785), Yoon Ji Choi (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3031-357X).

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