Sexually Transmitted Infections and Male Circumcision: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 12

Studies of the association between circumcision status and the prevalence of genital warts.

Study	Intact +ve/−ve	Circumcised +ve/−ve	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	Exact odds ratio	Exact confidence interval
Cook	51/489	412/1824	0.46	0.34–0.63	0.4618	0.3326–0.6307
Dave	175/4659	37/945	0.95	0.66–1.37	0.9594	0.6646–1.4173
Dinh	28/1127	133/2822	0.53	0.35–0.80	0.5272	0.3356–0.8026
Donovan	20/95	30/155	1.09	0.58–2.02	1.0874	0.5517–2.1075
Ferris	45/1578	107/2263	0.60	0.42–0.86	0.6032	0.4135–0.8677
Lavreys	3/92	16/635	1.29	0.37–4.53	1.2937	0.2370–4.6463
Mallon	29/246	7/75	1.26	0.53–3.00	1.2623	0.5139–3.5538
Mandal	22/66	6/11	0.61	0.20–1.85	0.6142	0.1815–2.2693
Parker	45/545	52/677	1.07	0.71–1.63	1.0749	0.6931–1.6617
Richters	110/3429	194/5297	0.88	0.69–1.11	0.8759	0.6840–1.1171
Rodriguez-Diaz	54/392	40/174	0.60	0.38–0.94	0.5997	0.3753–0.9640
Tseng: cases	5/56	8/31	0.35	0.35–1.15	0.3499	0.0825–1.3348
Tseng: controls	3/46	3/48	1.04	0.20–5.44	1.0430	0.1328–8.1928
Van Den Eeden	14/72	25/126	0.98	0.48–2.00	0.9801	0.4656–2.1052
Wilson	18/982	0/304	11.47	0.96–190.85	7.8664	1.3505–[45.8203]*
Random effects summary effect:					0.8225	0.65–1.04

∗Brackets have infinite confidence interval replaced with value equidistant from the odds ratio as the measured confidence interval.