Research Article

Age-Related Changes in the Fraction of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Grade 3 Related to HPV Genotypes Included in the Nonavalent Vaccine

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

VariablesSample size (204)
n (%)

Age (years) (median and interquartile range)37.0 (31.0–44.0)
Ethnicity
 Italian162 (79.4)
 Chinese11 (5.4)
 East Europe26 (12.7)
 Northern Europe1 (0.5)
 African4 (2.0)
Sample collection year
 2011 (4 months)22 (10.8)
 2012 (12 months)64 (31.4)
 2013 (12 months)67 (32.8)
 2014 (11 months)51 (25.0)
Single HPV infections181 (88.7)
Multiple HPV infections23 (11.3)
Potential HPV vaccine protection187 (91.7)
Non-high-risk HPV genotypes8 (3.9)

HPV: human papillomavirus.