Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of women by Pmp antibody expression.
| Characteristics | PmpA | PmpD | PmpI | ||||||
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| No n = 35 |
Yes n = 5 | P value | No n = 10 | Yes n = 30 |
P value | No n = 10 | Yes n = 30 |
P value | |
| Demographics | |||||||||
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| <25 years | 30 (85.7) | 4 (80.0) | 0.7378 | 8 (80.0) | 26 (86.7) | 0.3213 | 8 (80.0) | 26 (86.7) | 0.3213 |
| Race/ethnicity African American | 27 (77.1) | 4 (80.0) | 0.8862 | 8 (80.0) | 26 (76.7) | 0.3350 | 8 (80.0) | 23 (76.7) | 0.3350 |
| Married | 4 (12.1) | 1 (20.0) | 0.6272 | 1 (10.0) | 4 (14.3) | 0.4079 | 1 (10.0) | 4 (14.3) | 0.4079 |
| Uninsured | 11 (33.3) | 3 (60.0) | 0.0876 | 6 (60.0) | 18 (64.3) | 0.2850 | 6 (60.0) | 18 (64.3) | 0.2850 |
| Education less than high school | 14 (40.0) | 2 (40.0) | 1.000 | 2 (20.0) | 14 (87.5) | 0.1091 | 2 (20.0) | 14 (46.7) | 0.1091 |
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| Neisseria gonorrhoeae | 8 (25.8) | 2 (50.0) | 0.3134 | 3 (37.5) | 7 (25.9) | 0.2709 | 2 (22.2) | 8(30.8) | 0.3064 |
| Mycoplasma genitalium | 3 (12.5) | 1 (25.0) | 0.3954 | 1 (25.0) | 3 (12.5) | 0.3954 | 1 (16.7) | 3 (13.6) | 0.4513 |
| Bacterial vaginosis | 21 (67.7) | 1 (20.0) | 0.0584 | 5 (55.6) | 17 (62.9) | 0.2800 | 5 (55.6) | 17 (63.0) | 0.2800 |
| History of PID | 10 (28.6) | 1 (20.0) | 0.3970 | 4 (40.0) | 7 (23.3) | 0.1849 | 3 (30.0) | 8 (26.7) | 0.3038 |
| History of chlamydia | 15 (45.5) | 3 (60.0) | 0.3089 | 4 (44.4) | 14 (48.3) | 0.7183 | 5 (55.6) | 13 (44.8) | 0.4272 |
| aPelvic pain (mean score ± SD) | 65 ± 22 | 75 ± 15 | 0.3605 | 69 ± 14 | 66 ± 23 | 0.7387 | 65 ± 16 | 67 ± 17 | 0.7810 |
| bDays of pain(mean score ± SD) | 8 ± 7 | 5 ± 2 | 0.3238 | 6 ± 6 | 9 ± 7 | 0.3637 | 7 ± 7 | 8 ± 7 | 0.7569 |
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| Behavior | |||||||||
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| Current smoker | 15 (42.9) | 4 (80.0) | 0.1237 | 4 (40.0) | 5 (50.0) | 0.2481 | 2 (20.0) | 17 (56.7) | 0.0411 |
| Drug use | 12 (34.3) | 2 (40.0) | 0.3596 | 4 (40.0) | 10 (33.3) | 0.2719 | 4 (40.0) | 10 (33.3) | 0.2719 |
a( mean of current pelvic pain score, average pelvic pain score and worst pelvic pain score) × 10; bSelf-reported time to treatment following onset of symptoms.