Table 2. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of herpes zoster among liver cirrhosis patients during the 5-year follow-up period from the index ambulatory visit or inpatient care in 1998–2005.

	Total		Patients with livercirrhosis		Patients withoutliver cirrhosis
Development of herpeszoster	No.	(%)	No.	(%)	NO.	(%)
5-year follow-up period
Yes	523	1.9	82	1.8	441	1.9
No	27,479	98.1	4585	98.2	22,894	98.1
Crude HR (95% CI)				0.93 (0.74–1.18)	1
Adjusted HR (95% CI)				0.77 (0.59–1.01)	1

Adjustments are made for patients’ gender, age, urbanization level, geographic region, monthly income, hypertension, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus, organ transplantation, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, chronic renal failure, systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, and alcoholism.