The association of family history of herpes zoster and the risk of incident herpes zoster: the SHEZ Study.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe analysis of data from the SHEZ study was conducted according to the Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Research and the Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Studies after obtaining written informed consent from all participants. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (ethical approval number 18384), Research Foundation for Microbial of Osaka University, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, and Nara Medical University School of Medicine. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Data availability statementThe data will not available to the others except for a academic scientists with investigator support after the approval of the study committee. Competing interestsAll authors have declared no conflicts of interest. FundingThis work was funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Research on Publicly Essential Drugs and Medical Devices (fiscal year 2008–2010) [KHC1102] and for Public-private Sector Joint Research on Publicly Essential Drugs (fiscal year 2011–2012) [KHC1102], as well as research funds from the Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University. Author’s contributionsKeiko Kinumaki analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. Hiroyasu Iso, Hironori Imano, Yukiko Takao, Yoshinobu Okuno, Yasuko Mori, Hideo Asada, Koichi Yamanishi provided critical feedback for the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. AcknowledgementsWe thank the following medical organization for providing us this valuable research opportunity as well as information, samples, and feedback: Shozu County Medical Society, Shodoshima Federation of Self-Government Bodies. Tonosho town autonomous liaison council, Shodoshima town government, and Tonosho town government. Competing interests All authors have declared no conflicts of interest."

"Funding This work was funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for Research on Publicly Essential Drugs and Medical Devices (fiscal year 2008–2010) [KHC1102] and for Public-private Sector Joint Research on Publicly Essential Drugs (fiscal year 2011–2012) [KHC1102], as well as research funds from the Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University."