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Table 1 Demographics and sexual behavior characteristics of the female population studied

From: Evaluation of a methylation classifier for predicting pre-cancer lesion among women with abnormal results between HPV16/18 and cytology

 

Histology

P value

 

No lesion (n = 60)

LSIL (n = 107)

HSIL (n = 354)

CC (n = 67)

Characteristic

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

No. (%)

 

 Age at enrollment

  < 30 years

17 (28.3)

31 (29.0)

79 (22.3)

16 (23.9)

0.080

  ≥ 30 years

43 (71.7)

76 (31.0)

275 (77.7)

51 (76.1)

0.112

 Marital status

  Steady partner*

51 (85.0)

96 (89.7)

326 (92.1)

59 (88.1)

0.061

  No steady partner**

9 (15.0)

11 (10.3)

28 (7.9)

8 (11.9)

0.054

 Smoker

  No

52 (86.7)

88 (82.2)

311 (87.9)

55 (82.1)

0.064

  Yes

8 (13.3)

19 (17.8)

43 (12.1)

12 (17.9)

0.057

 Number of sexual partners

  0–1

49 (81.7)

87 (81.3)

286 (80.8)

51 (76.1)

0.093

  ≥ 2

11 (18.3)

20 (18.7)

68 (19.2)

16 (23.9)

0.088

 Time of sexual activity^

  11 years

13 (21.7)

17 (15.9)

51 (14.4)

12 (17.9)

0.073

  11–20 years

18 (30.0)

23 (23.4)

101 (28.5)

19 (28.4)

0.092

  21–30 years

13 (21.7)

37 (34.6)

98 (27.7)

15 (22.4)

0.054

  ≥ 30 years

16 (26.6)

30 (28.1)

104 (29.4)

21 (31.3)

0.084

  1. No lesion histologically negative without squamous intraepithelial lesion, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, CC cervical cancer
  2. *Married or with stable partner
  3. **Single women, windows, or divorcees
  4. ^Obtained by subtracting the age of onset of sexual life to the age at the time of the study