Development and Evaluation of a New Predictive Nomogram for Predicting Risk of Herpes Zoster Infection in a Chinese Population with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Ni ZengYueyue LiQian WangYihe ChenYan ZhangLanfang ZhangFeng JiangWei YuanDan Luo

Published in: Risk management and healthcare policy (2021)

The herpes zoster nomogram combines age, weight, position of the rash, 2-hour plasma glucose, glycosuria, serum creatinine, length of the hospital stay, and hypertension. This calculator can be used to assess the individual herpes zoster risks in patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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