Herpes zoster in Germany: Quantifying the burden of disease

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Number of Herpes Zoster (HZ) outpatient cases and HZ-incidence in the study sample, 2007 and 2008

	Outpatient HZ cases (study sample) 2007				Outpatient HZ cases (study sample) 2008
Age-group (years)	Population	Cases	Incidence^a	CI (95%)	Population	Cases	Incidence^a	CI (95%)
50 - 54	3,751,003	23,285	6.21	6.13 - 6.29	2,881,754	18,396	6.38	6.29 - 6.48
55 - 59	3,435,593	26,224	7.63	7.54 - 7.73	2,671,483	20,655	7.73	7.63 - 7.84
60 - 64	2,799,252	25,341	9.05	8.94 - 9.17	2,136,220	19,224	9.00	8.87 - 9.13
65 - 69	3,673,692	39,190	10.67	10.56 - 10.77	2,688,120	29,172	10.85	10.73 - 10.98
70 - 74	3,010,534	33,776	11.22	11.10 - 11.34	2,430,392	27,943	11.50	11.36 - 11.63
75 - 79	2,229,980	26,820	12.03	11.88 - 12.17	1,644,341	20,252	12.32	12.15 - 12.49
80 - 84	1,598,890	19,912	12.45	12.28 - 12.63	1,233,658	15,603	12.65	12.45 - 12.85
85 - 89	889,002	10,935	12.30	12.07 - 12.53	731,191	9,375	12.82	12.56 - 13.08
90+	376,927	4,827	12.81	12.45 - 13.17	269,752	3,715	13.77	13.33 - 14.22
total	21,764,873	210,310	9.66	9.62 - 9.70	16,686,911	164,335	9.85	9.80 - 9.90

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