Clinical Study
Oncogenic HPV Types Infection in Adolescents and University Women from North Portugal: From Self-Sampling to Cancer Prevention
Table 1
Characteristics of the study participants.
| Age and sexual intercourse | (%) | Age (median ± sda) | 17.0 ± 2.46 (range 14 to 30) | Age of menarche (median ± sda) | 12.0 ± 1.34 (range 8 to 16) | Age of first sexual intercourse (median ± sda) | 16.0 ± 1.67 (range 13 to 22) | Number of years after first sexual intercourse (median ± sda) | 2.0 ± 2.06 (range 0 to 12) | Education level () | | Elementary (≤9th grade) | 27 (6.2) | High school (10th–12th grade) | 296 (68.2) | University | 111 (25.6) | HPV vaccination () | | Yes | 161 (37.0) | No | 231 (53.1) | NRb | 43 (9.9) | Sexual activity () | | Yes | 277 (63.7) | No | 38 (8.7) | NRb | 120 (27.6) | No. of Sexual partners () | | 1 | 174 (62.8) | 2–5 | 94 (33.9) | NRb | 9 (3.3) |
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aStandard deviation; bNonresponders.
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