Table 1. Sociodemographic characteristics, HPV DNA testing and Pap testing results for the 1810 women included in this study.
| Characteristics | n (%)* | |
| <20 | 57 (3%) | |
| Age | 20–40 | 865 (49%) |
| >40 | 849 (48%) | |
| Smoking | Yes | 198 (11%) |
| No | 1607 (89%) | |
| Lifetime | 1 | 745 (43%) |
| number of | 2–3 | 816 (47%) |
| sexual partners | >3 | 179 (10%) |
| Age at first | ≥18 | 860 (49%) |
| intercourse | <18 | 895 (51%) |
| 0 | 116 (7%) | |
| Pregnancies | 1–2 | 619 (36%) |
| 3–4 | 618 (35%) | |
| >4 | 388 (22%) | |
| White | 302 (17%) | |
| Ethnicity | Indigenous | 46 (3%) |
| Mestizo | 1054 (59%) | |
| Black | 378 (21%) | |
| None | 728 (42%) | |
| Contraceptive | Hormonal | 185 (11%) |
| method | Surgery | 536 (31%) |
| Barrier | 277 (16%) | |
| Single | 299 (17%) | |
| Married | 408 (23%) | |
| Marital status | Civil Union | 896 (50%) |
| Divorced | 137 (8%) | |
| Widow | 45 (2%) | |
| Normal Cytology | 1564 (91%) | |
| Pap smear | ASCUS** | 92 (5%) |
| results | LSIL† | 49 (3%) |
| HSIL‡ | 13 (1%) | |
| HPV-16 | 834 (42%) | |
| Typing results | HPV-18 | 268 (14%) |
| for HPV-DNA | HPV-31 | 290 (15%) |
| positive | HPV-33 | 194 (10%) |
| samples§ | HPV-45 | 172 (9%) |
| HPV-58 | 94 (5%) | |
| HPV-6/11 | 100 (5%) | |
| TOTAL | 1810 | |
*Categories have a size lower than 1810, given that there are missing data on the surveys.
**Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS).
†
Low squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL).
‡
High squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL).
§
Percentages correspond to infection events with each HPV type, calculated over a total of 1952 infections, given that some women were coinfected.