Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. High-risk HPV types are the main cause of cervical cancer. Annually, cervical cancer is among the top 10 cancers in Puerto Rican women, with 22% of these cases ending in death. The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of high-risk HPV genotypes in a large cohort of young women living in Puerto Rico.
Methods: A retrospective longitudinal analysis was performed with a sample of 5,749 HPV results obtained from a clinical database of women ages 21 to 29 from 2014-2016.
Results: Outcomes indicate that among those with a positive HPV result, about one-third (35.2%) had a high-risk HPV infection. Women between the ages of 21 to 23 showed the highest prevalence (40.6%) of high-risk HPV. Among genotypes HPV 16 and 18, genotype 16 was the most prevalent. Interestingly, 85.4% of results were positive for other high-risk HPV types other than 16 or 18. Of the 458 women who had at least two tests completed, 217 had an initial positive result for HPV and only 108 (49.7%) resolved the infection.
Conclusions: This study confirms the high prevalence of several genotypes of high-risk HPV in young women in a large Puerto Rican sample.
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