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Table 2 Prevalence of negative and positive subjects for at least one HPV type, broken down by age-class

From: Prevalence of human papillomavirus in young Italian women with normal cytology: how should we adapt the national vaccination policy?

 

HPV-DNA

Age-class (years)

Negative

Positive

Total

 

N° (%)

N° (%)

N° (%)

95% CI

95% CI

 

16-17

14 (51.9)

13 (48.1)

27 (100)

33.0-70.7

29.2-66.9

 

18-20

318 (84.6)

58 (15.4)

376 (100)

80.9-88.2

11.7-19.0

 

21-23

82 (78.1)

23 (21.9)

105 (100)

70.2-86.0

14.0-29.8

 

24-26

49 (84.5)

9 (15.5)

58 (100)

75.2-93.8

6.2-24.8

 

16-26

463 (81.8)

103 (18.2)

566

78.4-84.9

15.1-21.6

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