Table 3.
Associations of vaginal symptoms and clinical data with identified vaginal community state types in cancer and healthy postmenopausal women.
| Evaluation of associations | p-value |
|---|---|
| Anova test | |
| Age | 0.017* |
| BMI | 0.462 |
| Fisher’s test | |
| Race | 0.378 |
| HRT use | 0.047* |
| Smoking | 0.473 |
| Ph category (normal vs high) | 0.0004* |
| Sexual intercourse in the past 4w | 0.029* |
| Symptoms (Yes/No) | |
| Dyspareunia | 0.234 |
| Vaginal Pain | 0.23 |
| Vaginal Dryness | 0.08 |
| Vaginismus | 0.68 |
| Vaginal Inflammation | 0.11 |
| Yeast Infection | 0.059 |
| Dryness (PRO) | 0.0001* |
| Discharge | 0.21 |
| Bleeding | 0.87 |
*denotes P < 0.01.