This Skin Issue Sky Rockets Your Heart Attack Risk 59%

You’ll probably find it ugly and irritating but it’s most often considered harmless and disappears quickly, never to return.

Not so fast though!

Because a new study reveals how this small skin issue drastically raises your risk of stroke, heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases.

Ironically, it may be more serious, the better your apparent cardiovascular health is.

Korean scientists used the database of the National Health Insurance Service to follow 519,880 people for a period of 10 years.

During this time, they discovered 23,233 new cases of shingles.

They found that shingles raised the risk of stroke by 35%, heart attack by 59% and overall cardiovascular diseases by 41%.

The risk of these events was highest during the first year of shingles diagnosis.

Interestingly, the shingles-related stroke risk was highest for people under 40 years, the group with the best cardiovascular indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol. This suggests something other than the usual mechanisms might be responsible for the strokes.

But why do people get shingles?

Shingles occur in people who had chickenpox as a child when the virus gets reactivated for some unexplained reason. Most often at an older age.

Because we don’t know why this happens, the only thing you can do to avoid shingles is to strengthen your immune system to fight the virus immediately as it gets reactivated before it flares up to your skin.

But shingles are of course not the most common cause of stroke and heart attack. The most important thing is to focus on…

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