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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of study participants

From: Distribution of HPV genotypes in cervical intraepithelial lesions and cervical cancer in Tanzanian women

  Cancer
(n = 48) 		CIN2-3
(n = 17) 		CIN1
(n = 21) 		CONTROLS
(n = 148) 		p-values**
  n % n % n % n %  
Age 55.2 12.3 44.7 9.8 35.7 12.2 40.3 9.9 <0.0001
Income $ 18 28 39 53 65 80 78 95 <0.0001***
Lifetime sexual partner          0.4* (1,2,3,4)
   1 24 52.2 7 43.8 5 25 62 56.5  
   2 19 41.3 6 37.5 11 55 56 39.2  
   3 3 6.5 2 12.5 4 20 20 14  
   4 0 0 1 6.3 0 0 2 1.4  
   None 2   1   1   5   
Marital status          0.6*
   Married 30 62.5 10 58.8 15 71.4 107 72.3  
   Non-married 18 37.5 7 41.2 6 28.5 40 27  
HPV          <0.0001
   Any 33 89.2 14 87.5 12 66.7 20 14.1  
   None 4 10.8 2 12.5 6 33.3 122 85.9  
   Genotypes per Case 2.8   3.7   2.7   2.1   
Current Smoke          0.6*
   Yes 2 4.2 0 0 0 0 3 2  
   No 46 95.8 17 100 21 100 144 98  
Oral contraception use          0.003
   Yes 19 39.6 10 58.8 16 76.2 98 67.6  
   No 29 60.4 7 41.2 5 23.8 47 32.4  
HIV-1 infection          <0.0001*
   Yes 6 19.4 9 81.8 9 64.3 23 20.9  
   No 25 50.6 2 18.2 5 35.7 87 79.1  
Tribe          0.3
   Chagga 21 43.8 12 70.6 10 47.6 84 57.1  
   Pare 10 20.8 3 17.7 2 9.5 21 14.3  
   Others 17 35.4 2 11.8 9 42.9 42 28.6  
  1. • * p-values is from fisher's exact chi-squared test due to small cell
  2. • ** p-values are exclude missing
  3. • *** Poisson regression
  4. • Numbers do not necessarily add up to the total due to missing values
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