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Juan Manuel

Patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) appear to have an increased risk of developing stroke, according to new research appearing online in the March 3 issue of Neurology.

In a large, population-based study conducted in Taiwan, investigators from Taipei Medical University and National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan, found that HZO patients had more than a 4-fold higher risk of having a stroke within 1 year than a matched cohort of controls.

The rate of stroke development was similar between patients who had received systemic antiviral treatment and those who had not.

"Shingles may represent a marker for increased risk of stroke," senior investigator Jau-Der Ho, MD, PhD, said in a statement from the American Academy of Neurology.