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Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population

BACKGROUND: The Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted virus worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate: 1) the prevalence and the incidence of external genital warts (eGW) in a sample of women attending community outpatient clinics and 2) the total number of eGW ca...

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Autores principales: Suligoi, Barbara, Vittori, Giorgio, Salfa, Maria Cristina, Timelli, Laura, Corsini, Dario, Fattorini, Giovanni, Mariani, Luciano
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28166736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2202-6
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author Suligoi, Barbara
Vittori, Giorgio
Salfa, Maria Cristina
Timelli, Laura
Corsini, Dario
Fattorini, Giovanni
Mariani, Luciano
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Vittori, Giorgio
Salfa, Maria Cristina
Timelli, Laura
Corsini, Dario
Fattorini, Giovanni
Mariani, Luciano
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description BACKGROUND: The Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted virus worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate: 1) the prevalence and the incidence of external genital warts (eGW) in a sample of women attending community outpatient clinics and 2) the total number of eGW cases in the Italian female population aged 15–64 years. METHODS: A prospective study was performed for a 12-month period between 2009 and 2010, among a sample of women attending community gynecological outpatient clinics located throughout Italy. Demographic data, for every woman aged 15–64 years, were collected. For women diagnosed with eGW, behavioral and clinical data were recorded. Prevalence of eGW was calculated as the proportion between the number of women with eGW and that of women visiting any of the participating gynecologists; incidence of eGW was calculated as the proportion between the number of women with a new diagnosis of eGW and that of women visiting any of the participating gynecologists. Standardized prevalence by age was used to estimate the number of eGW cases occurring in the Italian female population aged 15–64 years. RESULTS: In 2009–2010, 44 community gynecologists were included in the network. In one-year period, 16,410 women visited any of the participating gynecologists; 63 women were diagnosed with eGW, corresponding to a prevalence of 3.8 cases per 1,000 women per year (95%CI: 2.9-4.9). The incidence of eGW was 3.0 cases per 1,000 women per year (95%CI: 2.2-3.9). Women aged 15–24 years showed both the highest prevalence and incidence. Prevalence and incidence significantly decreased by increasing age group (p <0.001), and were higher in Southern Italy compared to Central-Northern Italy. The estimated number of women with eGW among women aged 15–64 years in Italy, in 2010, was approximately 69,000. CONCLUSIONS: These data show a high prevalence and incidence of eGW among young women in Italy, stress the effectiveness of community clinical networks in investigating STI epidemiology among women from the general population, confirm the relevance of HPV vaccination programs among adolescents, and underscore the need of promoting safe sex, implementing early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genital warts.
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spelling pubmed-52947362017-02-09 Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population Suligoi, Barbara Vittori, Giorgio Salfa, Maria Cristina Timelli, Laura Corsini, Dario Fattorini, Giovanni Mariani, Luciano BMC Infect Dis Research Article BACKGROUND: The Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted virus worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate: 1) the prevalence and the incidence of external genital warts (eGW) in a sample of women attending community outpatient clinics and 2) the total number of eGW cases in the Italian female population aged 15–64 years. METHODS: A prospective study was performed for a 12-month period between 2009 and 2010, among a sample of women attending community gynecological outpatient clinics located throughout Italy. Demographic data, for every woman aged 15–64 years, were collected. For women diagnosed with eGW, behavioral and clinical data were recorded. Prevalence of eGW was calculated as the proportion between the number of women with eGW and that of women visiting any of the participating gynecologists; incidence of eGW was calculated as the proportion between the number of women with a new diagnosis of eGW and that of women visiting any of the participating gynecologists. Standardized prevalence by age was used to estimate the number of eGW cases occurring in the Italian female population aged 15–64 years. RESULTS: In 2009–2010, 44 community gynecologists were included in the network. In one-year period, 16,410 women visited any of the participating gynecologists; 63 women were diagnosed with eGW, corresponding to a prevalence of 3.8 cases per 1,000 women per year (95%CI: 2.9-4.9). The incidence of eGW was 3.0 cases per 1,000 women per year (95%CI: 2.2-3.9). Women aged 15–24 years showed both the highest prevalence and incidence. Prevalence and incidence significantly decreased by increasing age group (p <0.001), and were higher in Southern Italy compared to Central-Northern Italy. The estimated number of women with eGW among women aged 15–64 years in Italy, in 2010, was approximately 69,000. CONCLUSIONS: These data show a high prevalence and incidence of eGW among young women in Italy, stress the effectiveness of community clinical networks in investigating STI epidemiology among women from the general population, confirm the relevance of HPV vaccination programs among adolescents, and underscore the need of promoting safe sex, implementing early diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genital warts. BioMed Central 2017-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5294736/ /pubmed/28166736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2202-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Vittori, Giorgio
Salfa, Maria Cristina
Timelli, Laura
Corsini, Dario
Fattorini, Giovanni
Mariani, Luciano
Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title_full Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title_fullStr Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title_short Prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of Italian general female population
title_sort prevalence and incidence of external genital warts in a sample of italian general female population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5294736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28166736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2202-6
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