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. 2011 Jun 16;6(6):e21241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021241

Table 1. Patient demographic data grouped according to their infection duration based on the BED results.

Demographic information All women Long Term Infection Recently Infected p-value
Age, women, mean (SD), years 21.5 (2.1) 21.6 (2.0) 21.2 (2.2) 0.059
Age of husband, mean (SD), years 28.7 (5.8) 28.5 (4.7) 29.5 (5.0) 0.048
Age at 1st menses, mean (SD), years 14.4 (1.6) 14.5 (1.6) 14.2 (1.4) 0.035
Proportion ever been forced to have sex (95% CI) 5.9% (3.8;8.1) 5.1%(2.7–7.4) 8.3%(3.4–13.3) 0.200
Proportion with more than one sexual partner in the past 12 months (95% CI) 17.4(13.9–20.9) 18.3% (14.2–22.5) 15%(8.6–21.3) 0.411
Proportion never been pregnant before (95% CI) 53.8% (49.3–58.5) 58.4%(53.1–63.7) 40.8%(32.1–49.6) 0.001
Proportion with ≥1 miscarriage in the past (95% CI) 12.4%(9.2–15.5) 14.2%(10.4–18.1) 7.1%(2.4–11.9) 0.050
Proportion with ≥1 still birth in the past (95% CI) 1.1%(0.1–2.2) 1.3%(0.03–2.5) 0.9%(−0.8–2.6) 0.757
Proportion with ≥1 children dead (95% CI) 10.2%(7.3–13.1) 11.0%(7.6–14.4) 8.0%(3.0–13.1) 0.472
Proportion treated for STIs (95% CI) 22.9% (19.0–26.8) 25.5% (20.8–30.2) 15.0%(8.6–21.4) 0.018