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Published in final edited form as: J Clin Virol. 2011 Mar 9;51(1):10.1016/j.jcv.2011.01.011. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2011.01.011

Table 3.

Association of viral load measures on HPV 16 viral clearance.

Variable	Unadjusted (OR (95%CI))	Adjusted^a (AOR (95% CI))
Higher study entry viral load^a	1.00 (0.88, 1.15)	1.00 (0.84, 1.19)
Index visit viral load
≤2000 copies/10⁴ cells	1.0	1.0
>2000 copies/10⁴ cells	1.59 (0.61, 4.1)	1.29 (0.39, 4.22)
Higher baseline visit viral load	0.99 (0.87, 1.1)	0.87 (0.70, 1.1)
Baseline visit viral load
≤2000 copies/10⁴ cells	1.0	1.0
>2000 copies/10⁴ cells	0.95 (0.4, 2.3)	0.42 (0.12, 1.4)
Viral load change across visit-pair
Increase	1.0	1.0
Decrease	3.16 (1.31, 7.65)	5.62 (1.75, 17.9)
>2 log increase	0.41 (0.06,2.83)	0.31 (0.03, 2.77)
1–2 log increase	1.11 (0.23,5.26)	0.49 (0.05, 4.62)
≤1 log change (+/−)	1.0	1.0
1–2 log decrease	2.39 (0.63, 9.02)	2.61 (0.56, 12.6)
>2 log decrease	5.26 (1.66, 16.61)	5.49 (1.40, 20.9)

Adjusted for age, study site, contraceptive use, STI diagnosis during follow-up, cytology during follow-up, infection type.