Table 2.
Median viral load stratified by patient demographic and clinical characteristics assessed by the Kruskal-Wallis rank test.
| Characteristic | HPV 16 (Total = 80) |
HPV 18 (Total = 46) |
|---|---|---|
| Copies/μL (n) | Copies/μL (n) | |
| Age, years | ||
| ≤30 | 540.3 (5) | 2 (4) |
| 31–45 | 202.8 (27) | 8 (21) |
| 46–60 | 292.1 (27) | 326 (18) |
| >60 | 728.2 (21) | 61.84 (3) |
| Kruskal-Wallis (P value) | (0.092) | (0.47) |
| Marital status | ||
| Married | 350.11 (57) | 13 (41) |
| Divorced | 1824.61 (3) | 15.37 (2) |
| Widowed | 524.708 (15) | 1375.2 (1) |
| Single | 281.68 (5) | 16,191,521 (2) |
| Kruskal-Wallis (P value) | (0.24) | (0.186) |
| Cytology grade | ||
| Normal | 0.73 (14) | 2 (31) |
| ASCUS | 0.008 (1) | 1.90 (1) |
| LGSIL | 284.39 (1) | 1.19 (1) |
| HGSIL | 218.1 (15) | 33,850,583 (2) |
| Cervical cancer | 783 (49) | 582 (11) |
| Kruskal-Wallis (P value) | (0.001) ∗∗ | (0.011) ∗∗ |
| Cytology outcome | ||
| Normal | 0.72 | 2 |
| Abnormal | 525.9 | 442.82 |
| MW (P value) | (0.001) ∗∗ | (0.002) ∗∗ |
| Infection Type | ||
| Single | 525.9 | 15.9 |
| Multiple | 142.2 | 1.9 |
| MW (P value) | (0.30) | (0.64) |
Abbreviations: ASCUS, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; HGSIL, high-grade squamous interepithelial lesion; LGSIL, low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; MW, Mann-Whitney; UNK, unknown.
∗∗P < 0.01.