Associated factors with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in adult women from northwest Mexico

Research on the association between risk factors and HPV infection in adult women from Hermosillo does not exist, so a study of cases and controls (1: 2) matched by age was de-signed to analyze this public health problem at a local level. Participants were 33 and 66 women with and without HPV, respectively (mean age = 41.8 & PLUSMN; 7.9 years). The difference in characteristics between groups was tested with conditional logistic regression (univariate). Antioxidant intake was adjus-ted by total energy using the residual method. Two multiva-riate logistic regression models were generated to identify factors associated with HPV. In both models, the higher con-sumption of lycopene (OR = 0.96, CI =0.95-0.99, p = 0.019) and the higher Plasma Total Antioxidant Capacity (TACp) (OR = 0.05, CI 95 % = 0.03 -0.7, p = 0.024), even adjusted by the number of pregnancies, number of sexual partners, and total number of sexual partners per year, reduced the risk of HPV. Multiple pregnancies and sexual behavior increased the risk of HPV, whilst higher consumption of lycopene and TACp reduced it in the women in this study. Sex education should be strengthened, as well as the consumption of antioxidants in women from Hermosillo to prevent the development of cervical cancer.