Association between Vaginal Douching and Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection among Women in the United States

Thanh Cong Bui; Thuy Nhu Thai; Ly Thi Hai Tran; Sanjay S. Shete; Lois M. Ramondetta; Karen M. Basen-Engquist

doi:10.1093/infdis/jiw388

Association between Vaginal Douching and Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection among Women in the United States

Thanh Cong Bui, Thuy Nhu Thai, Ly Thi Hai Tran, Sanjay S. Shete, Lois M. Ramondetta, Karen M. Basen-Engquist

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Abstract

The very few studies that have examined the association between vaginal douching and genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection have found contrary results. We investigated the associations between douching and numbers of HPV genotypes infecting 1271 participants aged 20-49 years in the 2003-2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. After controlling for relevant covariates, douching in the past 6 months was significantly associated with infection by higher numbers of all genital HPV types (relative risk ratio, 1.26; 95% confidence interval, 1.03-1.54) and HPV high-risk types (1.40; 1.09-1.80).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1370-1375
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume	214
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiw388
State	Published - Nov 1 2016

Keywords

United States
cervical cancer
human papillomavirus
vaginal douching

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Infectious Diseases

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