Table 5. Hospitalization rates among HZ patients aged ≥ 50 years old and associated factors: logistic regression analysis.

Variable	Parameter estimation	Standard error	Wald-Chi-Square	P	OR	95%CI
Age	0.1688	0.3138	0.2894	0.5906	1.184	0.640–2.190
First Onset age	0.1957	0.3040	0.4146	0.5197	1.216	0.670–2.207
First onset year	0.4502	0.2878	2.4465	0.1178	1.569	0.892–2.758
Gender	-0.7145	0.2947	5.8782	0.0153	0.489	0.275–0.872
Area	1.8687	0.4116	20.6135	<0.0001	6.480	2.892–14.517