Association of HPV genotypes with external anogenital warts: a cross sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 4 ^aAdjusted association of demographic and warts characteristics with oncogenic HPV detection (N = 156)

Covariate	Crude OR (95% CI)	P-Value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	P- Value
Age (years)	1.01 (0.98, 1.05)	0.467	1.02 (0.98, 1.06)	0.447
Gender
Female	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
Male	0.73 (0.31, 1.70)	0.463	0.76 (0.24, 2.38)	0.639
Nationality
Non-Kuwaiti	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
Kuwaiti	1.52 (0.78, 2.95)	0.220	1.01 (0.42, 2.45)	0.984
Number of Warts		0.552		0.221
One	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
Two-Four	1.24 (0.11, 14.16)	0.865	2.32 (0.15, 34.95)	0.544
At least five	0.84 (0.07, 9.88)	0.893	1.13 (0.07,17.47)	0.929
Duration of Wart (months)		0.184		0.114
Less than one	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
One – Six	2.85 (1.06, 7.68)	0.039	3.06 (1.03, 9.09)	0.045
Seven – Twelve	3.18 (1.01, 10.06)	0.049	1.12 (0.25, 5.05)	0.879
More than Twelve	2.50 (0.61, 10.20)	0.202	1.70 (0.32, 9.09)	0.535
Size of each Wart (Cm)^b		0.109		0.258
< 1	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
1	0.964 (0.333, 2.80)	0.947	0.61 (0.19, 2.03)	0.424
Between 1 and 2	2.39 (0.98, 5.81)	0.056	1.66 (0.57, 4.86)	0.353
> 2	1.88 (0.49, 7.22)	0.361	1.43 (0.31, 6.74)	0.649
Wart subject to prior treatment
No	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
Yes	1.89 (0.97, 3.69)	0.062	1.63 (0.72, 3.70)	0.246
Partner has Warts
No	1 (ref)		1 (ref)
Yes	1.32 (0.62, 2.81)	0.470	1.31 (0.53, 3.22)	0.563

^aThe binary outcome is the results of HPV sequencing being oncogenic genotype (1 = Yes, 0 = No), Oncogenic HPV genotypes include: 16, 18, 33 and 38
^bCentimeter

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