Table 3.

Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for the Association of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Grade 3 per 1 Unit Increase in Log₁₀-transformed Human Papillomavirus Type 16 DNA Load in the First Positive Sample Among Women With a Newly Detected Infection

Group	Total Assessed (no.)	Log10 Viral Copies/ng of Cellular DNA (Mean Load ± SD)	Adjusted OR (95% CI)a
Control subjects	101	1.52 ±1.57	1.00
Case patients	22	3.03 ±1.80	1.62 (1.21–2.17)
Cases by time of diagnosis relative to the newly detected infection
The same visit	6	3.85 ±1.92	2.09 (1.25–3.50)
1 visit later	9	2.80 ±1.96	1.53 (1.03–2.28)
2 or 3 visits later	7	2.61 ±1.49	1.46 (.94–2.26)

NOTE. ^aAdjusted for smoking status at enrollment.