Table 1.
Description of patients with HPV serology or history by gender and HPV status.
| Men | P | Women | P | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 261 (%) | HPV +ve vs. HPV -ve | n = 53 (%) | Men vs. women | |||
| Digene HC2 (high-risk) | HPV +ve 195 (74.7) | HPV - ve 66 (25.3) | HPV +ve 21 (39.6) | HPV - ve 32 (60.4) | < 0.001 | |
| Median age (years) | 33.1 | 30.0 | 0.62 | 33.1 | 31.8 | 0.004 |
| Age range | 13.7–76.3 | 18.8–71.7 | 19.2–62.4 | 17.0–71.2 | ||
| Sexual preference | ||||||
| Heterosexual | 24 (47.1) | 27 (52.9) | < 0.001 | 20 (39.2) | 31 (60.8) | |
| MSM | 171 (81.4) | 39 (18.6) | ||||
| Lifetime Number of Sexual Partners | ||||||
| 1–10 | 38 (20.4) | 13 (20.4) | 0.85 | 11 (57.9) | 27 (90.0) | < 0.001 |
| 11–50 | 71 (38.2) | 24 (40.7) | 6 (31.6) | 2 (6.67) | ||
| > 50 | 77 (41.4) | 22 (37.3) | 2 (10.5) | 1 (3.33) | ||
| Smoking status | ||||||
| Never smoked | 28 (42.4) | 92 (47.2) | 0.80 | 9 (42.9) | 16 (50.0) | 0.67 |
| Current | 29 (43.9) | 78 (40.0) | 9 (42.9) | 15 (46.9) | ||
| Ex-smoker | 9 (13.6) | 25 (12.8) | 3 (14.3) | 1 (3.13) | ||
| History of STDs | ||||||
| Gonorrhoea | 9 (13.6) | 44 (22.6) | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | 0.001 |
| Chlamydia | 41 (21.0) | 11 (16.7) | 0.44 | 3 (15.0) | 3 (9.38) | 0.034 |
| Serology | ||||||
| HIV | 77 (39.5) | 5 (7.58) | < 0.001 | 0 | 0 | < 0.001 |
| Syphilis | 24 (12.3) | 3 (4.55) | 0.073 | 0 | 0 | 0.004 |
| HSV-2 | 47 (24.1) | 11 (16.7) | 0.21 | 6 (30.0) | 3 (9.38) | 0.15 |
| HBV | 18 (9.42) | 1 (1.54) | 0.036 | 0 | 0 | 0.005 |
| HCV | 9 (4.66) | 3 (4.76) | 0.97 | 1 (4.0) | 0 | 0.30 |
| Wart site for first operation | ||||||
| Perianal only | 10 (5.13) | 20 (30.3) | < 0.001 | 5 (23.8) | 15 (46.9) | < 0.001 |
| Anal only | 75 (38.5) | 12 (18.2) | 4 (19.1) | 2 (6.25) | ||
| Perianal & anal | 109 (55.9) | 34 (51.5) | 12 (57.1) | 14 (43.8) | ||
| Number of operations | ||||||
| 1 | 195 (62.9) | 66 (79.5) | 0.030 | 21 (63.6) | 32 (94.1) | 0.026 |
| 2 | 69 (22.3) | 11 (13.3) | 8 (24.2) | 2 (5.88) | ||
| 3 | 25 (8.06) | 3 (3.61) | 1 (1.49) | 0 | ||
| 4 or more | 21 (6.77) | 3 (3.61) | 3 (9.09) | 0 | ||
n signifies the number of patients.