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Article: Poor women are at elevated risk for HPV infection, but few variables predict risk among those in poverty.(DIGESTS)(human papillomavirus)(Report)
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- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Women living below the poverty line are at greater risk for infection with potentially cancer-causing strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) than are better-off women, but among those living in poverty, there are few socioeconomic or demographic predictors of risk. (1) Analyses of data from the 20032004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey indicate that among poor women, Mexican Americans are significantly less likely than whites to have a high-risk HPV infection, and unmarried women have higher odds of infection than married women. By contrast, for women living above the poverty line, the likelihood of infection is predicted by race, income, marital status and ...