{"id":1622,"date":"2022-11-29T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:10","slug":"stroke-and-heart-attack-risk-rises-after-shingles-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/29\/stroke-and-heart-attack-risk-rises-after-shingles-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke and Heart Attack Risk Rises after Shingles Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/topics\/translational-medicine\/infectious-diseases\/stroke-and-heart-attack-risk-rises-after-shingles-infection\/\">Genetic Engineering &amp; Biotechnology<\/a>) Researchers at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital report that shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is associated with an almost 30% higher long-term risk of a major cardiovascular event such a stroke or heart attack. Their study \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/JAHA.122.027451\">Herpes Zoster and Long\u2010Term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease<\/a>\u201d appears in the\u00a0<em>Journal of the American Heart Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"rLmJT oXvhNVQzuCw DeZ\">rLmJT oXvhNVQzuCw DeZ<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Genetic Engineering &amp; Biotechnology) Researchers at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital report that shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is associated with an almost 30% higher long-term risk of a major cardiovascular event such a stroke or heart attack. Their study \u201cHerpes Zoster and Long\u2010Term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease\u201d appears in the\u00a0Journal of the American Heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}