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Table 4 Base-case scenario and sensitivity analysis results

From: The impact of childhood varicella vaccination on the incidence of herpes zoster in the general population: modelling the effect of exogenous and endogenous varicella-zoster virus immunity boosting

HZ incidence parameters

Exogenous-Endogenous (%)

100–0

75–25

50–50

25–75

0–100

2-year immunity to HZ scenario

 Decrease in HZ by year 80 (%)

63.6

63.8

64.0

64.2

64.4

 Number of years with HZ increase above pre-vaccine rate

3

3

2

1

0

 Max HZ increase (%) above pre-vaccine rate

1.3

0.8

0.3

0.0

0.0

 Year at max HZ increase

3

3

2

2

NA

10-year immunity to HZ scenario (base case)

 Decrease in HZ by year 80 (%)

62.1

63.1

64.0

64.8

65.6

 Number of years with HZ increase above pre-vaccine rate

21

10

3

2

0

 Max HZ increase (%) above pre-vaccine rate

3.7

1.8

0.8

0.2

0.0

 Year at max HZ increase

9

4

3

2

NA

20-year immunity to HZ scenario

 Decrease in HZ by year 80 (%)

60.1

61.8

63.3

64.7

66.0

 Number of years with HZ increase above pre-vaccine rate

33

23

9

3

1

 Max HZ increase (%) above pre-vaccine rate

5.7

2.6

1.0

0.9

0.8

 Year at max HZ increase

19

9

1

1

1

  1. HZ herpes zoster, NA not available