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Article: Long-Term Study Sorts Out Risks For HPV Infection And Cervical Lesions.(human papillomavirus)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- July 12, 2001
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2001 JUL 12 - (NewsRx Network) -- More than half of sexually active young women will be infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) if they remain sexually active over three years, a University of California, San Francisco, study shows.
That risk is boosted 10-fold with each new partner.
Contrary to some previous research, the study reported in the June 20, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that once a woman is infected with HPV, she is not certain to develop benign changes in the cells of the cervix called LSIL, or low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions. Approximately 30% of study subjects developed LSIL over a ...