Kim You Jeong, Lee Chang Nam, Lim Chi-Yeon, Jeon Woo Seok, Park Young Min
SaeHaYan Dermatology Clinic, Gwangmyeong, Korea.
DM/STATISTICS Institute, School of Medicine, Dongguk University, Goyang, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci. 2014 Dec;29(12):1706-10. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2014.29.12.1706. Epub 2014 Nov 21.
General epidemiological data regarding herpes zoster (HZ) are necessary for treatment and prevention of this disease. In addition, epidemiological data can play an important role in evaluating the efficacy and impact of vaccination. Though several epidemiological studies of HZ in Korea have been conducted, they usually depend on hospital-based data and may not be representative of HZ characteristics all over Korea. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence and other epidemiological features of HZ in the general Korean population. We used population-based medical records from the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service, which includes 50,908,646 medical insurance subscribers, to calculate the incidence of HZ. Also, we analyzed an age-stratified random sample of 1,375,842 individuals to study descriptive epidemiologic characteristics of HZ in Korea in 2011. We observed that the incidence of HZ was 10.4 per 1,000 person-years and was strongly correlated with age. Sex had a major influence on HZ incidence; overall, there were 12.6 cases per 1,000 person years in women and 8.3 cases per 1,000 person years in men. There was no difference in incidence according to the locality and season.
有关带状疱疹（HZ）的一般流行病学数据对于该疾病的治疗和预防至关重要。此外，流行病学数据在评估疫苗接种的效果和影响方面可发挥重要作用。尽管韩国已经开展了多项关于HZ的流行病学研究，但这些研究通常依赖于基于医院的数据，可能无法代表全韩国HZ的特征。本研究的目的是评估韩国普通人群中HZ的发病率及其他流行病学特征。我们使用了健康保险审查与评估服务机构基于人群的医疗记录（其中包括50,908,646名医疗保险参保人）来计算HZ的发病率。此外，我们分析了1,375,842人的年龄分层随机样本，以研究2011年韩国HZ的描述性流行病学特征。我们观察到，HZ的发病率为每1000人年10.4例，且与年龄密切相关。性别对HZ发病率有重大影响；总体而言，女性每1000人年有12.6例，男性每1000人年有8.3例。发病率在地区和季节方面没有差异。
