Table 7.

Median values of the highest quality studies in warts and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) parameters

Parameter	Median value (low, high)a	References
Cure rate for both treated and untreated genital warts and RRP	3.0632 (1.9699, 3.7271)	Tatti et al. [22]
Proportion warts progressing	0.1352 (0.0436, 0.2268)	Stockfleth et al. [75]
Rate of progression from HPV infection to genital warts	0.0087 (–)	Garland et al. [24]
Rate of regression from asymptomatic genital warts	1.7080 (1.1158, 2.3854)	Tatti et al. [22]
Rate of regression from symptomatic genital warts	4.9460 (2.4328, 7.4592)	Jardine et al. [76]
Rate of RRP-associated death	0.0020 (–)	Xiao et al. [77]
Recurrence rate of treated genital warts and RRP	0.2897 (0.2588, 0.3050)	Tatti et al. [22]
Probability of transmission of warts from mother to child	18.2000 (–)	Park et al. [78]
Proportion of asymptomatic genital warts that are infectious	0.1200 (–)	Turek et al. [79]
Proportion of symptomatic genital warts	2.8000 (–)	Turek et al. [79]

HPV human papillomavirus, RRP recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

^aRates are in units of 1/years. For parameters with only one value reported in their high-quality study, the ranges were represented as “(–)”