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. 2008 Apr 8;98(10):1704–1709. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604324

Table 1. Prevalence of HR-HPVs overall and as a proportion of HR-HPV-positive women by age group.

  20–29 years
30–39 years
40–49 years
50–64 years
All ages
Type n % of all women % of HR-HPV+ women n % of all women % of HR-HPV+ women n % of all women % of HR-HPV+ women n % of all women % of HR-HPV+ women n % of all women % of HR- HPV+ women
16 499 9.7 35.5 207 2.7 26.6 62 1.0 23.9 37 0.7 26.1 805 3.3 31.2
18 191 3.7 13.6 89 1.2 11.4 20 0.3 7.7 19 0.3 13.4 319 1.3 12.3
31 185 3.6 13.2 102 1.3 13.1 27 0.4 10.4 12 0.2 8.5 326 1.3 12.6
33 130 2.5 9.3 41 0.5 5.3 10 0.2 3.9 2 0.04 1.4 183 0.7 7.1
35 49 1.0 3.5 39 0.5 5.0 17 0.3 6.6 3 0.1 2.1 108 0.4 4.2
39 159 3.1 11.3 75 1.0 9.6 17 0.3 6.6 15 0.3 10.6 266 1.1 10.3
45 94 1.8 6.7 58 0.8 7.4 20 0.3 7.7 18 0.3 12.7 190 0.8 7.4
51 189 3.7 13.5 73 1.0 9.4 26 0.4 10.0 17 0.3 12.0 305 1.2 11.8
52 211 4.1 15.0 106 1.4 13.6 39 0.6 15.1 11 0.2 7.8 367 1.5 14.2
56 98 1.9 7.0 58 0.8 7.4 13 0.2 5.0 13 0.2 9.2 182 0.7 7.0
58 97 1.9 6.9 46 0.6 5.9 18 0.3 7.0 7 0.1 4.9 168 0.7 6.5
59 125 2.4 8.9 40 0.5 5.1 23 0.4 8.9 11 0.2 7.8 199 0.8 7.7
68 50 1.0 3.6 30 0.4 3.9 8 0.1 3.1 6 0.1 4.2 94 0.4 3.6
16 and/or 18 654 12.7 46.6 289 3.8 37.1 80 1.3 30.9 54 0.96 38.0 1077 4.4 41.7
Any HR-HPV 1404 27.3 100 779 10.3 100 259 4.2 100 142 2.5 100 2584 10.6 100
hc2+ No HR-HPV 329 6.4 368 4.8 270 4.4 222 4.0 1189 4.9
hc2− 3417 66.4 6452 84.9 5582 91.3 5246 93.5 20 697 84.6
All women 5150 100 7599 100 6111 100 5610 100 24 470 100

HR-HPV=high-risk human papillomavirus.