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Table 1 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

From: Can the dynamic spectral imaging (DSI) color map improve colposcopy examination for precancerous cervical lesions? A prospective evaluation of the DSI color map in a multi-biopsy clinical setting

 

Number of women N (%)

Total

529

Age median (range)

30.3 (19.7–72.8)

BMI median (range)a

23.1 (16.8–59.5)

Smoking

 

 No

269 (50.9)

 Current

128 (24.2)

 Previous

132 (24.9)

Contraception use

 

 Oral

204 (38.6)

 IUD

102 (19.3)

 Condom

26 (4.9)

 Other

8 (1.5)

 None

189 (35.7)

Parity

 

 No previous pregnancies

226 (42.7)

 Previous births

173 (32.7)

 Previous abortions (spontaneous and provoked)

36 (6.8)

 Both

94 (17.8)

HPV vaccination status

 

 Not vaccinated

190 (35.9)

 Vaccinated

318 (60.1)

 Ongoing

14 (2.7)

 Unknown

7 (1.3)

HPV tested

 

 No

407 (76.9)

 Yes

122 (23.1)

HPV status

122

 HPV 16

12 (9.8)

 HPV 18

5 (4.1)

 Other hrHPV

93 (76.2)

 HPV 16 + other hrHPV

7 (5.8)

 HPV 18 + other hrHPV

1 (0.8)

 No HPV found

4 (3.3)

New referral

464

 ASCUS

167 (36.0)

 LSIL

96 (20.7)

 ASC-H

55 (11.8)

 AGC

4 (0.9)

 HSIL

142 (30.6)

Follow-up

65

 CIN1

10 (15.4)

 CIN2

41 (63.1)

 CIN3

3 (4.6)

 Ungradable CIN

11 (16.9)

Colposcopists

 

Nurse colposcopist

374 (70.7)

Resident

91 (17.2)

Consultant

64 (12.1)

TZ visible?

 

 Yes, fully

378 (71.5)

 Yes, partially

151 (28.5)

What lesions were visible?

 

 Aceto-whitening

460 (87.0)

 Atypical vessels

59 (11.2)

 Punctuations

90 (17.0)

 Mosaic pattern

100 (18.9)

 No visible lesions

47 (8.9)

  1. BMI body mass index, IUD intra-uterine device, HPV human papilloma virus, hrHPV high-risk HPV, ASCUS atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, ASC-H atypical squamous cells favoring high grade, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, AGC atypical glandular cells, TZ transformation zone
  2. a5 women missing BMI information