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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2021 Jul 14;149(7):1483–1494. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33732

Table 4.

Risk of sequential acquisition of genital HPV following an oral HPV infection of the same type

9vHPVa
N=320
High-Risk HPVb
N=342
Low-Risk HPVc
N=391
Crude Model
Prior Oral Infection d Yes 3.4 (2.1–5.5) 3.5 (2.0–6.1) 9.3 (3.6–23.9)
Adjusted Model
Prior Oral Infection e Yes 3.5 (1.9–6.4) 3.2 (1.6–6.4) 16.4 (4.2–65.1)
P prior oral <0.001 0.001 <0.001
Age 18–30
31–44 0.7 (0.4–1.3) 0.7 (0.4–1.3) 0.4 (0.2–0.99)
45–73 0.8 (0.4–1.7) 0.7 (0.4–1.5) 0.5 (0.2–1.5)
P age 0.496 0.478 0.115
Country US
Brazil 1.5 (0.8–2.7) 1.5 (0.8–2.9) 2.4 (0.9–6.8)
Mexico 0.5 (0.2–1.2) 0.5 (0.2–1.2) 0.7 (0.2–2.6)
P country 0.043 0.031 0.059
Circumcision Yes
No 1.3 (0.8–2.3) 1.3 (0.70–2.3) 1.4 (0.6–3.5)
P circumcision 0.331 0.436 0.467
Number of Alcoholic Drinks Consumed in the Past Month 0
1–30 1.1 (0.6–2.1) 1.01 (0.5–2.2) 1.4 (0.4–4.5)
31–60 1.9 (0.8–4.2) 2.0 (0.9–4.5) 2.3 (0.6–8.1)
>60 1.7 (0.8–3.5) 1.3 (0.6–3.04) 1.6 (0.5–5.5)
Refused 1.3 (0.3–6.4) 1.5 (0.3–7.9) 4.5 (0.4–51.0)
P alcohol 0.436 0.384 0.662
Lifetime Number of Sex Partners 0–2
3–7
8–19 2.1 (0.9–4.5) 2.5 (1.2–5.4) 1.9 (0.6–6.6)
>19 2.7 (1.2–5.8) 2.7 (1.2–6.2) 3.9 (1.2–12.2)
Refused 3.9 (1.5–10.2) 3.4 (1.1–10.5) 2.6 (0.6–12.3)
P sex partners 0.038 0.060 0.121
Number of Times Gave Oral Sex in the past Six Months 0
1–6 0.8 (0.4–1.6) 1.02 (0.5–2.02) 1.1 (0.4–3.01)
7–24 1.4 (0.7–2.7) 1.4 (0.7–3.0) 1.4 (0.5–3.9)
>25 1.2 (0.6–2.6) 1.1 (0.5–2.4) 1.4 (0.4–4.6)
Refused 1.2 (0.4–3.6) 1.5 (0.5–4.8) 0.9 (0.1–6.8)
P oral sex 0.612 0.852 0.952

Abbreviations: HR: Hazard ratio; aHR: adjusted Hazard Ratio; CI: Confidence Interval

Bolded values indicate significance with p<0.05

a

Infections due to any of the 9 vaccine-type HPVs: 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58

b

Infections due to HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58

c

Infections due to HPV 6 and 11

d

Cox proportional Hazard Model: univariate analysis for risk of HPV infection by prior oral HPV infection status

e

Cox proportional Hazard Model adjusted for prior oral HPV infection status, age, country, circumcision, number of alcoholic drinks consumed in the past month, lifetime number of sex partners, and number of times oral sex was given in the past six months.