Table 3.

Logistic regression using data of all women whose HIV status was known showing associations with persistence of an abnormal smears following LLETZ (n = 295).

	Univariate Odds Ratio (95% CI)	Multivariate Odds Ratio (95%CI)	p-value
HIV infection	6.8 (4.3 – 10.7)	8.2 (4.2–15.8)	<0.0001
Disease at excision margin of biopsy specimen
No disease at the excision margins	Referent	Referent	-
Disease at the Ectocervical margin	2.1 (1.4 – 3.2)	2.2 (1.2–4.1)	0.013
Disease at the Endocervical margin	0.96 (0.6 – 1.6)	2.1 (0.9–5.5)	0.09
Both endocervical and ectocervical margins	2.6 (1.4 – 5.0)	10.7 (3.0–37.4)	<0.0001
Histology
CIN1	Referent	Referent	-
CIN2	2.0 (1.0 – 3.9)	2.0 (0.8–5.1)	0.17
CIN3	1.6 (0.8 – 3.0)	2.2 (0.8–6.0)	0.12
Micro-invasion	0.4 (0.04 – 3.8)	2.00 (0.04 – 96.7)	0.73
Age > 35 years (median age)	0.64 (0.5 – 0.9)	0.58 (0.33 – 1.0)	0.06

(n = 295).