Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Research
Cervical Human Papillomavirus Screening among Older Women
Table 5
Human papillomavirus (HPV) status and cytologic outcome summarizing results presented in Table 4
HPV status | Cytologic outcome |
Total | p* | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Normal, n (%) | Abnormal, n (%) | |||
1988 | ||||
HPV – | 537 (94.7) | 30 (5.3) | 567 | 0.22 |
HPV + | 81 (91.0) | 8 (9.0) | 89 | |
1991 | ||||
HPV – | 502 (94.2) | 31 (5.8) | 533 | 1.0 |
HPV + | 116 (94.3) | 7 (5.7) | 123 |
*Comparing rates of subsequent abnormality between HPV + and – women by using Fisher exact test.