Diagnosis of 25 genotypes of human papillomaviruses for their physical statuses in cervical precancerous/cancerous lesions: a comparison of E2/E6E7 ratio-based vs. multiple E1-L1/E6E7 ratio-based detection techniques

Table 1 The clinicopathological characteristics of the enrolled and pre-excluded women*

Characteristics	Women enrolled (n = 1162)	Women pre-excluded (n = 313)	p value^‡
Age	36.1 ± 8.1	37.0 ± 7.8	0.066
Parity	2.2 ± 1.5	2.1 ± 1.2	0.118
Gravidity	0.6 ± 0.6	0.7 ± 0.7	0.346
Abnormal cervical cytological findings^†			0.061
SCC	5 (0.4)	0 (0)
HSIL	256 (22.0)	76 (24.3)
LSIL	569 (49.0)	136 (43.5)
ASC-H	123 (10.6)	25 (8.0)
ASC-US	186 (16.9)	71 (22.7)
AIS	0 (0)	0 (0)
AGC-neoplastic	2 (0.2)	0 (0)
AGC-NOS	21 (1.8)	5 (1.6)

* The data are presented as mean ± standard deviation or number (%).
^†SCC, squamous cell carcinoma; HSIL, high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; LSIL, low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion; ASC-H, atypical squamous cells – cannot exclude HSIL; ASC-US, atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance; AIS, adenocarcinoma in situ; AGC-neoplastic, atypical glandular Cells, suspicious for AIS or cancer; AGC-NOS, atypical glandular cells not otherwise specified.
^‡Two-sided Student's t test or two-sided χ² test was used as appropriate.

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