Table 2 High-risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Abnormal Cervical Cytology in Samples of Nepali and Bhutanese Women Living in Eastern Nepal
n (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall | Nepali | Bhutanese | p- value | |
High-risk HPV infection (n = 641) | 0.3993 | |||
No | 584 (91.1) | 496 (91.5) | 88 (88.9) | |
Yes | 57 (8.9) | 46 (8.5) | 11 (11.1) | |
Cervical cytologyƗ (n = 576) | 0.6982 | |||
Normal | 535 (92.9) | 458 (92.7) | 77 (93.9) | |
Abnormal | 41 (7.1) | 36 (7.3) | 5 (6.1) | |
Cytology results in detail | 0.5387 | |||
Normal | ||||
WNL | 473 (82.1) | 406 (82.4) | 66 (80.5) | |
ASCUS | 62 (10.8) | 51 (10.3) | 11 (13.4) | |
Abnormal | ||||
ASC-H | 7 (1.2) | 5 (1.0) | 2 (2.4) | |
AGUS | 10 (1.7) | 10 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
LSIL | 20 (3.5) | 18 (3.6) | 2 (2.4) | |
HSIL | 4 (0.7) | 3 (0.6) | 1 (1.2) | |