Table 4 Association between preventive examination, smoking and the presence of HPV
From: Role of HPV 16 variants among cervical carcinoma samples from Northeastern Brazil
Risk Factors | HPV | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Negative | Positive | p-value | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Preventive examination before diagnosis | |||||||
No | 29 | (24.2) | 12 | 41.4 | 17 | 58.6 | 0.070 |
Yes | 84 | (70.0) | 20 | 23.8 | 64 | 76.2 | |
Don’t Know/ Did not Answer | 7 | (5.8) | 0 | 0.00 | 7 | 100.0 | |
Frequency of Pap test | |||||||
Every Year | 44 | (36.7) | 12 | 27.3 | 32 | 72.7 | 0.153 |
Every 2 Years | 9 | (7.50) | 1 | 11.1 | 8 | 88.9 | |
Every 3 Years | 1 | (0.8) | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
4 years or more | 1 | (0.8) | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Without Regularity | 32 | (26.7) | 8 | 25.0 | 24 | 75.0 | |
Don’t Know/ Did not answer | 33 | (27.5) | 9 | 27.3 | 24 | 72.7 | |
Smoking | |||||||
No | 69 | (57.5) | 22 | 31.9 | 47 | 68.1 | 0.208 |
Yes | 43 | (35.8) | 9 | 20.9 | 34 | 79.1 | |
Don’tKnow/ Did not answer | 8 | (6.7) | 1 | 12.5 | 7 | 87.5 | |