title: Comparison of women with cervical human papillomavirus infection and genital warts. I. Some behavioural factors and clinical findings.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if behavioural factors, other than sexual, differ between women with cervical human papillomavirus infection (CHPI) and those with genital warts (GW).
  
  
  METHODS
  A structured, personal in-depth interview which included details on sexual behaviour, hygiene, gynaecological complaints, and demographical characteristics and a gynaecological examination which included vaginal culture and human papillomavirus (HPV) typing with Southern blot.
  
  
  METHODS
  Women (n = 972) who had attended two family planning clinics and one youth clinic for contraceptive advice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of this female population 66 (6.8%) were found to have CHPI, 39 (4.0%) had genital warts (GW), and 30 (3.1%) women reported genital warts within the last two years. The women with CHPI had had significantly less education, were more often immigrants, had a vaginal flora change more frequently and were more often smokers than the women with GW. The women with GW reported lower abdominal pain significantly more often, had a leucocyte dominance in the vaginal secretion more often and favoured bathing in a bathtub more than the women with CHPI. After adjustment for sexual behavioural factors the significant difference between the two groups for bathing in a bathtub and lower abdominal pain remained.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although both conditions are caused by HPV, there are behavioural differences between women with CHPI and women with CA.
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborative Centre for STD and their Complications, Uppsala University, Sweden.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hellberg
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Borendal
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sikström
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Mårdh
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D001494:Baths; D003218:Condylomata Acuminata / Q000382:microbiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000821:virology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene; D008297:Male; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000523:psychology; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012907:Smoking; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000523:psychology / Q000821:virology; D002577:Uterine Cervical Diseases / Q000821:virology